WineXpert Additional Sorbate

[Kraffty]

I've been adding Pot Sorbate to a couple of kits I backsweetend and was planning on doing it again to a WE coastal white but just realized It's already a standard part of the kit ingredients. I don't remember seeing this addressed here. Is dosing it twice good, bad, neither???

HELP?
Mike

 

[Runningwolf]

It is bad unless if you like your wine to taste like bubble gum.

 

[robie]

Most of us never use sorbate unless we are going to back sweeten the wine. And then we only use the bare minimum.

Like Runningwolf said, the more you add the more the wine will have a bubblegum side-flavor.

 

[Putterrr]

some of the ultra premium kits come with 2 packages of sorbate. any reason they would need 2 packs?

thx

 

[robie]

some of the ultra premium kits come with 2 packages of sorbate. any reason they would need 2 packs?

thx

Which specific ultra-premium kits do that? Unless they are intended to be back sweetened with an F pack, I can't imagine why that would not be just a mistake. Many F packs include extra sorbate.

 

[Putterrr]

I dont write down what is in kit packages but I have seen it in winery series kits and EP kits. I just opened my WS super tuscan and there are 2 packs and no f-pack with that kit. just wondering why

thx

 

[Kraffty]

How about I ask this instead, If I just use the original kit dose then add my f-pack, how long should I wait to bottle or to be sure it doesn't start fermenting again?
Mike

 

[Runningwolf]

I add sorbate and sugar, cold stabilize for two weeks then bottle within days. Once you add sugar and sorbate you can bottle within a few days, just make sure they are all mixed in good.Somr folks like to wait to add sugar for several weeks after adding sorbate, in reality there is no need to do that and the wineries don't do it.