Wine Kits Chardonnay

January 6, 2010 9:40 am | Uncategorized

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How do you know when to bottle homemade wine?

We are in the process of making our first batch of homemade wine, an Italian Chardonnay. It was a 6 week kit and was started on Apr. 9th… it has been 44 days… we tasted it and it is pretty dry and we were thinking of adding sugar syrup to sweeten it up a bit, but then someone else advised that maybe we shouldn’t do that and we should wait longer to see if it gets better.

How much longer do we wait? In the mean time, we bought more supplies and 3 more kits and we want to bottle this batch so we can use the carboy to get started on the next three kits. The problem is, this batch is REALLY dry… so dry that it really isn’t drinkable.

I am so confused and disappointed, I wanted it to come out good and it isn’t. Should I check the SG? If I do, what should it be at to be okay to bottle? If I add sweetener, will that change the specific gravity? When we went to step #3, degassing and clearing, the SG was .993 and that was on Apr 26.

I so need some advice. Thanks.

Jan, My family has been making wine for generation back in Italy, although I learned there I now make it in US as well but I never add sugar or any sweeteners to it.

I only use yeast when fermenting then after I racked it (always by siphon the wine from one container to the smaller one) 3 to 4 time months apart, I bottle some and keep it in a darkish cool place. I use my wine cellar and naturally I keep the bottles on the side in order to keep cork wet.

If you don’t rack it enough you may find some sediments on the bottom side of the bottle.

Try this site it may help you with some questions that you may have.

http://www.winemaking.com/

Good luck :-)

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