IT might be good to contact them and ask them for their reasoning. Most
wine kit companies are more than happy to answer your questions. It may
have to do with the yeast rather than the wine. I have seen instructions
for starting wine by sprinkling dry yeast on the surface and not stirring it
in. The second day you stir it only down about 1 inch. The third day you
stir it several inches down. after that you can stir it all the way down.
Supposedly this keeps the rapidly multiplying yeast cells near the surface
where they can get for air which is necessary during reproduction. But
contact the company and let us know what they say.

Ray

"snpm" > wrote in message
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> Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every
> day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not
> disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.
>
> I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good
> reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?
>
> Cheers
>
> Sean
>
>