Fizzy Wine

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.

sunshineband · « **Reply #1 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

sarajane · « **Reply #2 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.

sunshineband · « **Reply #3 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

Smelt nice though

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

Kleftiwallah · « **Reply #4 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.

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