Hello,

I am very new to this and so far despite having about 14 gallons on the go
in one gallon demijohns I only have one gallon bottled (which furnished me
with four bottles).

I had a look at my bottled white wine a while ago and noticed it had stuff
suspended in it. Sorry to give the comparison but it looked like somebody
had had a hearty sneeze into the bottles. I left it for a while to see if
it would settle out but it stubbornly stayed where it was.

The other day I got hold of a wine filter so thought I would try this on the
bottles. I sterlised a new bottle using VWP and started filtering. Anyway,
the filtering worked well for about a bottle and a half before getting
clogged up and then I knocked the damn thing over and spilled it. I was
left with the bottle and a half so I corked the full bottle and tasted the
half. The wine smelled quite bad and didn't taste to great either, although
it was much improved over the unfiltered wine.

The bottle I have left I put to one side upright for a fewdays. It was
crystal clear and I was quite hopeful. About 12 hours ago I laid it on its
side to get the wine in contact with the cork. This morning I look at it
and the deposit has started to return.

Now, I did notice something brown oozing from the cork a bit when I put it
in the bottle but assumed this was probably normal (not sure, I am new to
this!) Also, it was a cheap kit so this probably didn't help (CWE White
Wine). I know I probably get what I paid for but this must be wrong.

Can anybody help? I don't want my other 13 gallons to end up down the sink
too!