Shucks - Please have faith! Others have clearly had much better results than me so perhaps my kit got super cooled or super heated as it traveled across the Atlantic. If anything, a disappointment makes me want to try it again and change part of my process. Next time around I won't filter and will leave 6 - 9 months bulk aging in the cellar. Any number of variables could have led to a poorer wine
A quick question if anyone knows the answer. I understand that too much tartaric acid in wine will drop out as needles in a cold cellar. At roughly what level of acid would that occur? I have a WE Selection Cabernet Sauvignon in the cellar and it's dropped a lot of needles in the bottles. Not so much in the Eclipse Merlot though and none at all in this Eclipse Sauvignon Blanc.