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This is a raisen Sherry wine I'm working on. It's 6 months old now. Just tasted it and it's lovely. Very dry and a little cloudy though. It needs back sweetened but first of all I need to stop the fermentation completely with Potassium Sorbate, 24 hours then Camden tablet. I thought I'd then...

I have a couple of wines I had to reduce acidity in. The wine acidity overshot due to drift in my pH meter and I hadn't recently calibrated using buffer. The first was Cherry and Raisen Wine which had a pH of 3.25 which I adjusted to 3.67 using Calcium Carbonate. What I didn't know was I was...

I have a mango wine just out of primary that smells strongly of pineapple. A quick Google search and this appears to be part of the esterification process of amino acids degrading. I read that this complex process occurs from an interaction between acids and alcohol. This makes sense due to me...

Dump or keep . Had some really warm weather and this Raspberry wine fermented dry in primary in four days as I wasn't keeping tabs on it. Starting SG was quite low at 62. Smells of petrol. Racked it off the lees and tried getting a bit of air into it. Acidity is pH 3.43. Don't know whether to...

Hi I'm Craig and new to wine making. I have an issue with a Campden tablet. I prepared my hot must as per the recipe after dutifully sterilising everything. As per the instructions for Raspberry wine in Terry Garry's Joy of home winemaking, I crushed a Campden tablet mixed with water and added...