You could consider another option. I saw one "topping off" solution; adding
sterile glass marbles to the carboy. You maintain the integrity of your
wine and the marbles are reusable. Just another thought.

"Dave Allison" wrote in message
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Wow, what great response. thanks! This all is great input. This really
helps. After more googling, it appears this is close to a Merlot?
Well, I will take your advice, this is good.. thanks.
DAve
p.s. it's time to rack and stablize and top up. thanks for all the input.


snpm wrote:
On Aug 28, 4:14 pm, pp wrote:
On Aug 28, 3:43 pm, snpm wrote:





On Aug 27, 7:05 pm, Dave Allison wrote:
Hi, all.
I am making a WinExpert Corvina Classico di Veneto kit. This is a new
grape and taste to me, but found the marketing hype too good to pass
up.
smile.
I normally "top up" with like wine on kits rather than water and have
never had a problem. So I normally buy 1-5 bottles of the same type
wine
when I need to top up after stabilizing.
My question is: does anyone know what a like wine is for Corvina? Or
is
this also commercially available? My googling didn't find a simple
answer. Maybe I'll hit my wine store next - but don't want to buy $30
bottles of wine to "top up".
thanks for any thoughts. DAve
Dave, my corvino chrushendo kit is six months in the bottle, and
doesnt taste like anything I would buy, my price range is around ten
bucks.
I can only say much the same...I wouldnt personally top up with wine
that cost more than that, even for the corvino, which is my most
expensive kit by an astronomically long measure. At six months I took
a bottle down....very VERY fruity, great complex taste and long lush
finish
Good luck
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Sorry Sean, just to clarify, are you saying the kit tastes much
*better* than $10 commercial wine?

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sorry....clarity is not my strong suit......if you topped this wine
up, and wanted to use something that tasted similar, you would have to
use a wine from at least the $ 10 and up price range. A range I cant
afford to drink, let alone use for top-up.

none of the wines in my price range, $10 and below, taste anything
like as good as the corvino kit does at 6 months.