Abby, this is the new Spagnols instructions for all of their kits, not
just the 23 litre Bolero kits. Feedback on the RJ Spagnols forum has
been very positive on the new instructions.

BTW, I have heard good things about this Italian Merlot. Also, I
would expect this kit to reach about .994, but it's a few years since
I've made this exact kit in my store

Steve

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:48:03 -0300, Childfree Abby
> wrote:

>I am pondering my next project - R.J Spagnoli Bolero - Italian Merlot.
>
>This kit is just a tad different than the ones I have tried previously,
>in that I have in my possession a 23L bucket of sterilized must. I was
>reading through the instructions as I always do before I begin and found
>something different than in my previous kits: The wine is kept in the
>primary fermenter four 14 days, then racked into the secondary only when
>the sg reaches 0.998 one begins stabilizing and clearing the wine.
>
>In the other kits I have tried, the wine is transferred to the secondary
>after the first week or so when the SG reaches 1.010 or less and
>secondary fermentation begins.
>
>In essence, this kit omits the secondary fermentation altogether. What
>say you all on this particular method?
>
>Abby