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Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: sarajane on July 23, 2011, 19:58

Title: Fizzy Wine
Post by: sarajane on July 23, 2011, 19:58

I,ve got about 30 bottles of blackberry and elderberry wine in the garage, 3 years old.  It has a great taste but is fizzing.  I expect it has started to ferment again and don't want exploding glass bottles.

 Would a campden tablet in each bottle stop this or would it affect the flavour or any other suggestions please.

Title: Re: Fizzy Wine
Post by: sunshineband on July 23, 2011, 20:06

Two options --

use one of those stoppers that let gas put but not air in
pour the wine back into a bucket/buckets, cover and let fermentation finish, then add potassium sorbate to stabilise it

A campden tablet per bottle would be far too much  :(

Hope that helps a bit  :)

Title: Re: Fizzy Wine
Post by: sarajane on July 23, 2011, 20:13

Many thanks for that.  Will do option 2 tomorrow. Thought a campden tablet would be a bit much. 

I cant believe it has started to ferment  again after all this time.

Title: Re: Fizzy Wine
Post by: sunshineband on July 23, 2011, 20:20

We had some rose petal wine that started to ferment after some months in the bottle. It was stored under stairs and the corks burst out with a noise like a shot gun.

Wine poured everywhere  :tongue2: :tongue2:

Smelt nice though  ;)

Glad you've spotted the refermentation before this happened to you  :)

Title: Re: Fizzy Wine
Post by: Kleftiwallah on July 23, 2011, 21:22

Prior to bottling I grind up one Cambden tablet in a pint of water and use this dilution to swill around in the bottle, don't rinse and the residual chemical is usually enough to stop any further fermentation.   ;)  Cheers,    Tony.