Recent content by LaCroixes

I *wish* I could dilute it with another 3 gallons, but alas no. I have only about 6 bottles of the original fizzy wine that I held back when I first started this odyssey, but I'm hesitant to send perfectly fine (but fizzy) wine after bad. Hummer, will bottle-aging work as well as bulk-aging...

Well, I don't have a power drill either.... But maybe I can borrow one. I've just been splash-racking from the carboy into a bucket, stirring vigorously for a couple of minutes and then splash-racking back to the carboy. Brewkowski, I've heard of the hydrogen peroxide thing, but I'm not really...

Thanks for the responses. While waiting for advice from the forum, I poured the wine from bucket to bucket about 8 times and got a face full sulphur for my trouble. I don't have a wine whip, but I will stir it semi-vigorously with a long-handled spoon after racking into a bucket.

Since I'm new to winemaking (more of a homebrewer), I thought I'd start small with a Vintners Reserve 4-week kit. I ended up not degassing enough before bottling, and 3 months later, my Cab-Zin blend is all sorts of bubbly. After reading many previous posts on possible remedies, I decided to...