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I didn't add clearing agent Tom, I was hoping not to and allow wine to clear naturally. It's going to get left for a long time now, so I think I'd rather see how it clears first. However I forget to say that I did degass it when I racked it last night.

Thanks to your previous advice I waited about 10 days extra before racking. I racked last night for the first time, adding one Camden tablet to my gallon. I definately made one mistake, and sucked up some sediment from the original jar (There was a lot!). When I looked at it this morning...

So is the concensus to leave it a while for the CO2 to release before first racking?

Should have mentioned previously, it a first time go to learn some lessons for a big batch of blackberry, some pear and some elderberry for later in the year. As strawberries are available early it seemed like a good choice to learn a few lessons for I committed to a bigger quantity...

So I'm anticipating around 3 rackings, with the last one being the addition of final sweetening, although will obviously if it needs more then so be it... Rough plan would be to leave it around 4 weeks between rackings. So my anticipated timeline would be 1st rack - August, 2nd rack -...

Thanks for both your quick responses, feels nice to have somebody to talk to! I do intend to sweeten, but had planned to do on the last racking, adding sulphite/sorbate at the same time. I think my dilemma is whether to give it more time for the sediment to form before the 1st racking as...

Hi there, I am currently fermenting my first ever strawberry wine and it is nearing completion of the secondary fermentation. It's been fermenting for a total of 3 weeks and was transferred to a glass demijon (1 gallon) after 5 days. The starting gravity was 1086, was transferred into...