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We are about 5 to 6 weeks out in our pear wine. We have racked it 5 times if you count moving it from the primary to the secondary and #1. The reason why we've racked it this many times already is not because of it's clearity (it's fairly clear), but because this is our first time making wine and we were running the sediment through a mesh bag and thus ended up putting most of it back into the secondary. Just yesterday we racked it and this time didn't mess with the sediment, but rather just stuck that in a smaller bottle to see if we can derive more juice from it. The wine also had 6 pounds of white rasins in it so it's got a nice orange juice/apple cider/or somewhat bronze color to it. It's fairly clear or at least not real cloudy.
Anyway, with this racking we got all the sediment for the most part and are already happy with it's clearity. It's not crystal clear but I hear that doesn't really effect the taste so long as the primary sediment has mostly been removed? Yesterday we added 1 campden tablet, 1/2 teaspoon (or what that tablespoon...whatever it called for) per gallon of Sorbate to insure no future fermentation, and then added a couple cups of sugar because the original 10 pounds seems to all have been converted to alchohol as it's a very dry (non-sweet) wine at this time.
I'm wondering, if we are fairly satisfied with it's present clearity but wouldn't mind a bit more how long should we wait to bottle? Can't you age the wine just the same in the bottles? I'm mainly trying to figure out when we should bottle, should we add another Campden tablet when doing that, and how soon we can drink it? I'd like to get another batch of pear wine brewing in the secondary so can't we just age what we have now in bottles? If so, how long to wait before drinking?
Anyway, with this racking we got all the sediment for the most part and are already happy with it's clearity. It's not crystal clear but I hear that doesn't really effect the taste so long as the primary sediment has mostly been removed? Yesterday we added 1 campden tablet, 1/2 teaspoon (or what that tablespoon...whatever it called for) per gallon of Sorbate to insure no future fermentation, and then added a couple cups of sugar because the original 10 pounds seems to all have been converted to alchohol as it's a very dry (non-sweet) wine at this time.
I'm wondering, if we are fairly satisfied with it's present clearity but wouldn't mind a bit more how long should we wait to bottle? Can't you age the wine just the same in the bottles? I'm mainly trying to figure out when we should bottle, should we add another Campden tablet when doing that, and how soon we can drink it? I'd like to get another batch of pear wine brewing in the secondary so can't we just age what we have now in bottles? If so, how long to wait before drinking?