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Wade I cleaned the carboy, before I racked it with a clorinated detergent, rinsed with tap water, and then added some sodium metabisulphite, swished it around, and rinsed with tap water, three times and racked from my primary into the carboy.

Wade this is on the inside of the carboy full of wine

Hi all I am currently making a wine kit wine expert vintners reserve vallpallicello it is in the secondary fermentation stage day 6 and when I got home from work I noticed a white residue on the inside of the carboy in the void area between the top of the wine and the bottom of the stopper has...

Hi all Iam currently fermenting a wine expert kit vintners reserve valpollicella, it is in the secondary fermentation process at day 4. My question is when is the best time to take a taste test? can it be done right after you degass, and add the metabisulphate, and sorbate, or wait untill...

Steve Thanks for all the information, I appreciate you, and everyone else ,taking the time to answer questions for all us rookies, and I think I will take your suggestion on sweetning that wine, it as I drink it thanks again.

cpfan I understand what you are trying to tell me now. I do not have any 3 gallon carboys, but I certainly am going to have to invest in one soon it will make things work a lot easier, thanks for everything.

Wade I am new to makeing wine, I have never tasted the valpolicella before, but when I bought the kit from the store, the lady told me it was a dry wine, I told her I did not like dry wines, so she said I could add a sweetner to it, I do not know if she had a bunch of kits that were going to...

cpfan should I add the k-meta, and the k-sorbate and let it sit for 2 months, and then add the conditioner, or add the conditioner the same time?

In the kit it has potssium metabisulphate and potassium sorbate is that simalar to what you have suggested

Hi I am currently making a wine expert, vintners reserve kit, called valpolicella I would like to add wine conditioner to 2/3 of it to sweeten it. Can I sweeten it after I let it age in the carboy for 2 months or should I sweeten it and then let it age? the other 1/3, I would like to leave...

cpfan this is my first shot at making wine, and my daughter bought me a kit for christmas, she bought it at a wine store in saskatoon, may I ask were you a sask resident at one time?

Hi everyone my question is, when making a wine kit, niagra mist black cherry pinot noir, can you skip the stage 2 after it states to tske a SG test, and rack it into a glass carboy, could you not leave it in your primary fermentor for 2 weeks instead of going through the extra step of racking it ?

Thanks for the reply wade I am currently fermenting a wine expert kit that recomends to leave it age for up to 6 months, it states to top up with water, what are some other alternatives to water? if I had some of this mist wine could I top it up with that, or should I use a dry wine? I am not...

I made my first wine kit at new years every thing seems to be going good except 1 thing, after I degassed it, I added the sorbate to the wine and stirred it, than added the syrup, mixed it, and than added the finning pack, and mixed it, and syphoned back into carboy, the only thing that I am...