bottling

I have recently made pear wine. I bottled after 2 months, and then 2 months after that I have opened a bottle to discover it tastes a little bit sour. I have some acid reducing crystals which I am told can help, and was hoping I could open my bottles, add the crystals, then recork and see if it...

So I've got two 54L demijohns and I was wondering how I should go about bottling my wine now that it's clear and ready. I have a racking cane and a simple bottling wand. I also have some 5 gallon buckets with a spigot on them that I've used in the past. Should I sulfite my wine transfer to 5...

Hello, Last autumn I've made my first wine from grapes (opposed to kit wines before) and it is aging nicely. It is a cabernet sauvignon but it still tastes young. Sour and tart. Its been transferred to a fresh carboy twice and on oak chips in between for about three months. I'm happy with the...

Hello! We are a newly licensed winery that is looking to finally be making some equipment purchases. We have had some bad luck contracting our harvests out to be made for us so far resulting in two vintages that have been deemed unsellable. I would like to get some equipment to be able to make...

When your first wine batch is ready, it’s an exciting moment, one that I remember very fondly. I unfortunately had one batch too many spoil because I didn’t plan the storage of my wines very well. A quick rule of thumb I go by is that after the wine clears I add a small amount of meta sulphate...

Hello all, So I have some red wine that will be bottled soon. I found a few threads discussing the topic of using wax seals on wine bottles. However, there was usually one question asked that never seemed to get a straight answer or was ignored altogether. My hope is to get that questioned...

Last night I was bottling my wine and forgot to add campden tablets before bottling 😬 can I pour back into carboy, add campden, and rebottle? If so, should I let it sit for a few days or can I rebottle right after?

Completed my first bottling, a Winexpert Cabernet Sauvignon Lodi II. In retrospect, I wish I had purchased new bottles. I saved my used wine bottles for about 6 months. Only thing I didn't count on was the variety of bottle shapes. I used a 3 1/2" x 5" label, which didn't work well with...

Newbie Alert!!! Ok, I'm toying with the idea of getting some champagne bottles to bottle wine in. I'd like to eventually try bottle carbing. But, in reading it seems that the champagne bottles require different equipment than what I have. I have a Portuguese Red corker and a double-handed...

Hi everyone, How is it going? Hope you are doing fine. I have made a red grape wine using Redstar yeast which stalled at 1030, Due to cooking up (misreading) with hydrometer readings, SG was 1190 then went down to 1100. I eventually realized my mistake and deluted it to 1070 which fermented...

hi! I’m trying to make a batch of elderflower wine (completely new to this!) following the process below. My wine’s currently fermenting in a wine bucket and it still seems fizzy, it’s been in there for 3 weeks. Should I take it out and bottle it now? Can I bottle it in a flip top bottle...

My mother and I started making wine. We set up a system were we are bottling the stuff we are gifting out and keeping long term, then bagging the stuff we are planing to drink in the next 6 months. Our issue is that we are having a hard time getting the bags closed all the way. Dose anyone...

I have used sulfite in the past to sanitize but I thought Star San might be an improvement. I know the slogan "don't fear the foam" but as I started to sanitize my bottles, they were filling with foam. I didn't want to ruin a batch of wine so I went back to sulfite. Would the foam be a...

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Good evening, I had a question about storing organic wine. I'm new to wine-making so please correct me if I'm using the wrong terms. I've been searching the internet for answers on how to store wine without any preservatives (keeping the wine longer without going bad) and without sterilizing...

Hello, I am a beginning wine maker. I have had a lot of successful wine, so far and am eager to get into keeping it for longer periods. however I seem to hit a snag. I can't seem to get a straight answer on bottling. It took quite some time to gather the info needed. However I still have some...

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If anyone is interested or is using a Portuguese floor corker please take a look at a new kit I have put together to turn it into an automatic corker. I have it online. Evidently you will need to put 2 and 2 together to find monarchwines web site! Any feedback would be greatly appriciated...

I've made 6 gals. of rice-raisin wine and bottled it. The problem I am having is that it seems to have CO2 in it still. I thought I stabilized it properly by stirring it, I also ran it thru a filter for polishing. The wine has been bottled for about a month and I'm noticing corks that are...

I used a vino del vida by rj spangols. Cabernet syrah. It kinda tasted weird but hoping that cause its very young still. but more imortantly, there is alot of sediment. I know what I did wrond. Moved it around too much when I siphoned for carboy into bottling bucket. Lessons learned for next...