Hi,

I'm new to wine making and I was wondering if folks could recommend a
sanitization product. I mainly need to keep fermentation vessels, a siphon,
and bottles free from spoiling microorganisms. I am making mostly small
batches a gallon or so at a time, using pasteurized juice (so I don't need
to kill off microbes in the must).

There are a number of products on the market and I'm not sure which to use.
Some of them advertise as "no rinse". Does that mean some other products
require a rinse? In that case what do you rinse with? Tap water? If that
were true why bother sanitizing at all?

Also I bought some stoppers with holes for airlocks but the stoppers smell
strongly of rubber and I don't want that smell to go into the wine. Could
that happen? Did I buy the wrong thing?


Thanks,

David