down the road you may wish t invest in some testing procedures to see where your sulfite levels are at....and it also helps to know your intentions for a timetable for drinking this wine...for instance you could easily be under 15ppm and have that wine in a year or less.....more ppm if the intention is longer (i am speaking in general terms because you CAN have 15 or less ppm and have that wine last for a long long time if stored properly
and this to Wade....i just purchased the Vinmetrica sulfite tester...i will report in how i like it...you may end up thinking they could be a good advertiser here....the price at roughly 250 is not for the once or few times a year maker of a few gallons...there is just no need...but for people who really want to know where they stand...and for those that have decided this sulfite level knowledge is serious to their understanding of where they want their wine to be, then testing sulfite is a must
example....i had run out of some testing supplies last summer....could not determine the sulfite level before bottling one release...so i played it safe and stabilized before bottling...given the circumstances it was a MUST...but afterward i could tell the difference...and to me it needed a decant upon first opening......since consistency is important to me, i had to upgrade my testing ability