Well this is a very informative forum, so here's another one for ya...
I recently did the CC Viognier kit, which was my first attempt at a white wine kit. It behaved nothing like the reds I have done (all CC's). When I did the racking at the end of primary fermentation I had to add over 1 litre of wine to the carboy to bring it up to the desired level - this was because there was close to one inch of sediment at the bottom of the primary bucket (pretty good-tasting sediment actually, but a tad gritty). Not having any kit whites handy I used two bottles of Two Vines Chardonnay I had on hand, to do the job <sob>
Two questions:
1 - has anyone else on the forum done this kit? Did it leave a lot of sediment in the primary bucket?
2 - what is the preferred method of "topping up". In some of my first kits I simply used water, but later decided to use wine of similar colour and flavour.
thanks in advance, and many thanks for your answers to my earlier posts.
best regards
Bob
I recently did the CC Viognier kit, which was my first attempt at a white wine kit. It behaved nothing like the reds I have done (all CC's). When I did the racking at the end of primary fermentation I had to add over 1 litre of wine to the carboy to bring it up to the desired level - this was because there was close to one inch of sediment at the bottom of the primary bucket (pretty good-tasting sediment actually, but a tad gritty). Not having any kit whites handy I used two bottles of Two Vines Chardonnay I had on hand, to do the job <sob>
Two questions:
1 - has anyone else on the forum done this kit? Did it leave a lot of sediment in the primary bucket?
2 - what is the preferred method of "topping up". In some of my first kits I simply used water, but later decided to use wine of similar colour and flavour.
thanks in advance, and many thanks for your answers to my earlier posts.
best regards
Bob