"Tom S" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> "Dr Paul Dowrick" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > I have had a lot of problems with oxidation in apple wine. Is there
any
> > problem with putting a quater of a campden tablet in each bottle
prior to
> > corking?
>
> I suspect you've been using too much sulfite, too early. Try sulfiting
the
> wine for the first time _after_ fermentation, when the wine goes dry.
Let
> all the browning that's going to happen, happen _early_. The brown
stuff
> drops out with the spent yeast, and when you finally do add sulfite,
the
> wine turns a pale greenish-yellow. At least that's what happens with
> grapes.

That seems to fly in the face of everything I've read!