Dave: Just curious.....how did you know that it stablilized? Did you
bottle the wine? How much juice per bottle? I would be adding approx.
2-3 oz per bottle and I don't think that it would cause a
refermentation in the bottle.

On Dec 15, 8:05 pm, Dave Allison > wrote:
> Just my 2 cents - Ocean Spray cranberry juice has sorbate or similar in
> it. When I added juice like that to a wine, it stabilized it without
> needing sorbate.
>
> Just fyi, I am only 3 years into making wines, so I'm not an expert. But
> I also like to make some juice/wine blends for friends and family (In
> NC, they like it sweet. Not me!)
>
> DAve
>
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> wrote:
> > I want to add about one half gallon of Ocean spray cranberry juice to
> > about 3.5 gallons of an average Merlot. The wine is in a corny keg
> > ss....under N2....but I probably still need to add some sorbate to
> > prevent renewed fermentation....in case I would want to bottle one or
> > two down the road. I have filtered the wine and racked several
> > times....but there probably is a few yeasties hanging around. Any
> > opinions and how much sorbate?- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -