Mosti Mondiale Fining Reagents

[hartm]

I am making my first kit, an all-juice MM Sauvignon Blanc. During the racking stage after the secondary fermentation I had a lot of sediment and maybe was overly cautious in transferring any solids.


I ended up needing quite a bit of wine to top-off the 6 gal carboy (4 bottles). I transferred what remained in the 1st carboy in an effort to keep this wine (don't want to waste anything). I probably have a good 1/2 gal of wine that I can recover.


What fining reagent should I add to clarify this wine. The kit came with siligel and liquigel, but I used them for the main batch.


Any help is greatly appreciated...

 

[vcasey]

Superkleer, look under finings in the store.
VC

 

[pelican]

Superkleer packets are good for 6 gallons - if you only have a 1/2 gallon of wine to recover from the excess sediment, I would let time do it's thing. Let that drop sediment and compact a bit, then rack again (not so carefully), and then let more drop out... repeat as needed until there's little sediment and then rack really carefully at that point. Let that extra 1/2 gallon you get be your private consumption bottles and don't sweat the bit of sediment you may get in the bottle when all is said and done. That's my 2 cents worth.

 

[grapeman]

I agree fully with Pelican. Let nature do her thing in it's own time.

 

[hartm]

Thanks for the input.


I ended up using Sparkolloid. So far it seems to have worked well. We'll see what it tastes like.

 

[vcasey]

Pelican and Appleman are right, for a half gallon batch using superkleer would be a waste. I'll usually clear a bunch of small batches at the same time. I just wait until I have enough and start clearing. But for a single small batch I'll also use sparkolloid if I need to rush things along.
VC