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Thanks Robie, unfortunately we emptied the bottles back into the carboy and added some more finings before I read your last message - we are grateful for all the advice and have used it (and stored it for future use) we will also invest in a decanter - fingers crossed !

wow, thanks guys - all of these comments are extremely useful. We followed the instructions thoroughtly and yes, we did transfer (rack) the wine 3 times in total before bottling - the instructions said to add the finings at stage 4 then leave for 6 days before bottling - we left for 8. It looks...

pardon my ignorance, very first batch and keep seeing the word 'racking' and assumed it meant 'bottling' .the instructions did not give any specifiics on racking - so, without actually knowing what racking means I can only say, that we syphoned from the carboy 7 days after adding the fining agent

We have just bottled our first batch of wine 'Kenridge Connisour Merlot' (3 days ago). we have been through all the fermentation stages, de-gassing and stabilizing, the SGR was at 0.990 after day 8 and remained at 0.990 throughout - finings was added at stage 4 (stabilizing) but no sweetener...