Topping off

[Jim09]

Making a blueberry wine. It's going through secondary fermentation and I'm getting ready to rack it again. I don't want to top it off with water. Would Welch's Grape juice work?

 

[CatawbaCat]

as long as you've already added kmeta and sorbate, yes. Or get a bottle of blueberry to top off, or even a cheapy bottle of any old red.

 

[bernardsmith]

Hi Jim09 - and welcome. But why does it have to be stabilized before you add grape juice? Certainly , it COULD be stabilized but there is no harm in adding additional fermentables even if the purpose is to top up the volume. Indeed, I would argue (albeit with not much hard evidence) that allowing whatever you are adding to fully interact with viable yeast will better incorporate the flavors... AND I would argue that if Jim09's wine is just coming out of active fermentation and has been racked to a secondary then stabilizing the wine so soon is not perhaps the best approach. You want the yeast remaining after racking to be metabolizing all kinds of chemicals they have produced... In my opinion, stabilization is what you do before bottling and only then if you are planning to back sweeten....