Hi guys,
I made my very first batch of cabernet wine so the whole process along the way i have been learning. I started with the wine from the carboy and was rackong it to another clean carboy before i bottled everything. As it turns out the bottle filler i purchased does not match the auto siphon and tubing that i have, it seems the tubing is too large a diameter to fit the bottle filler. Still, i proceeded to bottle anyways just using the large diameter tube and the auto siphon. As it turns out the whole process proved to be more difficult having to fight with the large diameter tubing and restart the suction process multiple times. As a result i ended up disturbing the sediment from the carboy somehow which ended up in the wine in each bottle. I didnt realize after i corked everything and tried a bottle half an hour later. The wine was cloudy and had that white looking sediment left over in the glass, i went back to look a few hours later and all the other 29 bottles have a layer of this milky white sediment at the bottom of each bottle. The wine seems to tast fine but call it dead yeast, or tartartic crystals or a mixture....whatever but in either case my only hope is that the bottles fully settle and i get as little of the sediment from the bottles as possible. Is there anything else that i can do? Will this ruin the wine as it ages as it seems i will likely finish drinking the wine within one year anyways. I should mention i did not filter this red, would this prevent this from happening again in the future? Or...is my auto siphoning placement and technique wrong? We could also assume i bottled to soon but the sample i took from the top with tue wine theif days before was cryalstal clear.
I made my very first batch of cabernet wine so the whole process along the way i have been learning. I started with the wine from the carboy and was rackong it to another clean carboy before i bottled everything. As it turns out the bottle filler i purchased does not match the auto siphon and tubing that i have, it seems the tubing is too large a diameter to fit the bottle filler. Still, i proceeded to bottle anyways just using the large diameter tube and the auto siphon. As it turns out the whole process proved to be more difficult having to fight with the large diameter tubing and restart the suction process multiple times. As a result i ended up disturbing the sediment from the carboy somehow which ended up in the wine in each bottle. I didnt realize after i corked everything and tried a bottle half an hour later. The wine was cloudy and had that white looking sediment left over in the glass, i went back to look a few hours later and all the other 29 bottles have a layer of this milky white sediment at the bottom of each bottle. The wine seems to tast fine but call it dead yeast, or tartartic crystals or a mixture....whatever but in either case my only hope is that the bottles fully settle and i get as little of the sediment from the bottles as possible. Is there anything else that i can do? Will this ruin the wine as it ages as it seems i will likely finish drinking the wine within one year anyways. I should mention i did not filter this red, would this prevent this from happening again in the future? Or...is my auto siphoning placement and technique wrong? We could also assume i bottled to soon but the sample i took from the top with tue wine theif days before was cryalstal clear.
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