Mike
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I'm making two wines right now and completed the fourth step last night. This is the step where you rack, add metabisulphite, top up, and let sit for 2 weeks before bottling. These are my 4th and 5th kits and in all previous kits, I topped up with water as I didn't have any wine available then. With my quest for a fuller bodied wine, though, I decided to top up these two kits (a shiraz and melbac) with a previous wine. The wine I topped with wasn't either of those two styles (it was a sirah), but I think it'll be much better than adding over 750 mL of water.
My question is how important do people think it is to add the same style of wine to top up (perhaps requiring you to go out and buy a bottle or two) or do most people feel that most any old same-color wine will do? I doubt I'll notice any flavor difference from having 1/30 of the final product be a different style, but just want to see the lengths others go to.
My question is how important do people think it is to add the same style of wine to top up (perhaps requiring you to go out and buy a bottle or two) or do most people feel that most any old same-color wine will do? I doubt I'll notice any flavor difference from having 1/30 of the final product be a different style, but just want to see the lengths others go to.
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