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    No second fermentation in bottle? (or a very slow one?)

    Hello, I tried making a sparkling wine of grapes last spring, which failled because only some bottles fermented a second time. I think it was because of the high alcohol content in the wine (13°). To get a little practice i tried again this summer with apple cider. We ran the same proces only...
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    Bentonite not setteling

    Hi, after sending our wine to the laboratory, they advised us to add bentonite to clear some remaining proteins. We have two wines, a pinot noir (white) and a chardonnay. The pinot noir cleared up just fine after 10 days or so after we added the bentonite. The chardonnay is still cloudy. Any...
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    starting a bottle fermentation

    So I bottled the mixture, but there is no pressure buildup. There should be, the bottles were seeded with yeast and sugar and kept at 20°C. I aerated the mixture before seeding with yeast because i thought the SO2 content could be too high.(I splashed it from one container to another, several...
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    starting a bottle fermentation

    I have bottled the mixture un champagne bottles. But I thought I would see some yeast activity before bottling. I'll open a bottle in a few days to see if there is a pressure buildup.
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    starting a bottle fermentation

    Hello, we are new to winemaking, we made a batch of mixed 50/50 Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. The wine is clear and we would like to try to make a sparkling wine from it. BUT we miscalculated when adding sugar at the start, so the alcohol content is already 13 vol%! Now i did some research...
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