Question on cold settling the pressed juice from white grapes

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Hellothar

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The juice I have is very murky as I didn't do a very good job at cold settling. Is this going to be a big problem later on? I haven't ever worked with grapes before and although I did cold settle, I didn't do it for very long (24 hours) and I kept a portion of the sediment in the juice for fear of loosing too much of the batch. Now I am wondering if that in doing so I will have ruined the whole batch!
I haven't added the yeast starter yet so I could potentially cold settle again, but it has been nearly 2 days now since I pressed the juice and I don't want to spoil it in some other way either.
 

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Did you add sulphites? Personally, I would add bentonite & pitch the starter as you don't want it to sit uncolonized for too long.
 
Did you add sulphites? Personally, I would add bentonite & pitch the starter as you don't want it to sit uncolonized for too long.
Hey, thanks for the reply - Yeah I did add campden tablets yesterday, 1 per gallon.
I think I may do that and pitch the starter asap. it would be a real shame to let it go off waiting to clarify more. I don't have any bentonite but can get hold of some in the next few days off ebay I'm sure.
 
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