I opened up my first bottle Vintner's Reserve Wine made from a kit and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't detect an unpleasant odor as I initially had before racking once again to a "tertiary(?)". This batch is a vast improvement on my first attempt at making wine.
The kit did indeed call...
I'm making five gallons of merlot from a kit and racked the secondary into another carboy. The secondary did however seem to have a lot of sediment. (lees?).
The wine sample tasted good and seemed to have cleared quite nicely. Nevertheless it had a disagreeable odor. Is the odor to be...
