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Steve Peek Steve Peek is offline
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Default Sparkolloid

Chilling will help some, but in my experience the lees from both pear and
apple are extremely easy to disturb. Hold your racking cane high above the
lees and rack as much as is possible, then try chilling the rest.
Cheers,
Steve
"Dick Heckman" > wrote in message
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> I've never had to use fining agents on my wines but I've had a pear wine
> that didn't want to clear so I used some Sparkolloid Powder. It's cleared
> the wine but whenever I try to draw the wine out, the finings get stirred
> up with any minor move of the siphon. Is there a fix for this?
>
> Dick