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I am making a Cellar Craft Washington Reserve Gewurztraminer and it's the first non-dry wine I've made. If I bulk age it for 3-6 months should I add the k-meta, sorbate and "flavour reserve" now or wait until close to bottling and just add the k-meta for now?

Does it matter when I de-gas the wine if I am going to be bulk aging it? I was thinking that I should do it as soon as the fermentation is done and I have topped it off but I'm not sure. Also, just generally speaking for bulk aging, is this how you want to do it? 1. Fermentation is done, add...

I made 6 gallons of mead and split it between two 3 gallon carboys. I added about half a gallon of apple cider to one and in a day it got REALLY clear and the other one is still as cloudy as ever. The ingredients for the apple cider just says "Apple Juice" and it also says "No...

I have a couple kits that are in carboys, a shiraz and a cabernet franc that were from concentrate. The Shiraz just finished clearing and the cab. franc has been aging for about a month. I just tasted them to see how they are coming along and they were surprisingly good even though they are...

Is there a reason not to bottle cap wine? I did a search on this forum and a google search to see if anyone was doing it and couldn't really find anything. I found plenty of information about screw caps, but wouldn't a crimped cap be basically the same thing but a lot cheaper to do? I'm thinking...

I've read a couple places that adding potassium sorbate can give a wine a sweet taste and that if you are making a dry wine it's not necessary and should be left out to avoid impacting the taste. I've never seen what exactly is meant by "dry wine" though. Does that just mean a wine that has been...

I'm new to wine making so spending the money for an electric pump doesn't really make sense yet but I definitely noticed that the most time consuming and frustrating part for me so far is the degassing. I don't know if I'm being overly meticulous or what but I used one of those drill stirrers...

I just bottled my first kit, a village vintner cabernet sauvignon and started in on the next kit, a Grand Cru cabernet franc. I sampled the cabernet as I bottled it and it was (just barely) drinkable. The kit says to age it 3 months to a year. I plan to open the first bottle starting in July and...

I got a village vintner cabernet sauvignon kit for my first wine and I'm getting close to the end of fermentation. After I've added the metabisulfite, de-gassed, etc. the instrucions say to rack it two more times and filter it. I only have one carboy and a plastic bucket. I was going to transfer...