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I'm a little confused. After fermentation has completed and wine racked from the lees, what is the next thing to do to wine prior to leaving it to clear and mature. If I'm understanding correctly, stabiliser is added just before bottling.

I plan to stabilise the wine with campden tablets after racking. I thought that this would stop any further fermentation and therefore no more CO2 will be produced?

Are you saying leave it sitting on the lees and not rack it?

Hi. Have just finished fermenting 5 gallons of Apple wine in a Youngs 22 litre FV.This FV can actually hold 30 litres. What do you guys do about the 8 litres of air space left in the FV. Obviously this is not a problem during fermentation, but I'm worried about oxidation during maturation and...

Interesting, especially when flavour and colour is so important in wine. This thread is now starting to swing the other way to fermenting on pulp

Thank you guys for your replies. My fruit is the type which I should be able to extract flavour and sugars out fairly easy, so I leave for another day before straining then adding yeast and sugar. My apple is soft but still the same as when I chopped them, but the elderberrys and black berry...

Hi. I'm currently making separate Apple(5 gallon), Blackberry, and Elderberry wines all from fresh fruit. I need help as to when to add the yeast and sugar. There seem to be two schools of thought after pouring boiling water on to the fruit in a bin: 1: stir for 1-2 days, add yeast, leave for a...

Thanks for the advice. I've tried Geoffrey's idea, and now have both a DJ and 2 lit PRT bubbling away

Thank you, but I don't have 4 lits to put in both DJs, only 3.5 lits. I fear adding a litre of Red grape juice would knock it back to far. Would 3,5 lits + 500ml of grape juice making 4 lits in each DJ work, or will this leave too much air space in the DJ?

Hi Guys I've moved up from wine kits and have just in the process of making Blackberry wine. Its been fermenting now for 4 days in a 10 litre bucket and now need to finish fermenting in a DJ. The problem is that the recipe has produced a "must" containing 7 litres- too much for one DJ and not...