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Several excellent comments above. Thanks to all for jumping into the discussion. This gives me a couple very good options to consider. I understand from Stickman that it might not be air at all, but rather CO2. And I did actually try Sour Grapes idea of pumping plain water through the pump...

Hello, new to the forum but not so new to winemaking. Started BK (before kids) in the 1970s and just restarted making dry wine from New York Finger Lakes area grape juices (white only). Siphoning during racking has always been a challenge. We used to manually start siphons - yes by sucking on...