Nice tips....thank you. I will take your suggestion and calibrate my primary fermentation bucket....I'll also do the tipping thingy......I now have gotten into the habit of running all my wines through a filter before bottling, so I guess I can be a little more generous when I do the racking.....
I purchased a buon vino small wine filter....it does a great job filtering the wine and making it crystal clear...As for tweaking the wine afterwords....I guess I don't really know what is meant by that, but I'll try and do some more reading on it.
To answer dralarms, I am located about 40...
Thank you all for your valued input.....it looks like a lot "depends". After a year, I have just gotten to the point that I have some wine that is a year old....most of my early wines did not last over 3 months, family and friends all had to try some......I just may purchase a smaller size...
I have been making wine kits for almost a year now and this is my first post.
I use wine expert kits. Here is my question: After clarification, can I bottle it at any time if it has NO CO2 left in the wine. I built my own degassing system using a vacuum pump so I know there is no CO2...