Depending whether you made wine from grapes, Juice, or fruit. Seems like was
to quick to bottle. If from kits then you didn't follow directions.
When I make wine I ferment then transfer a few times to clear. I then bulk
age for months. I do fruit wine which I pick. This wine I bulk age for at
least 9 MONTHS before bottle then I wait another 3 months before I drink.
Wine juice will go a little faster.
I usually add something like Sparlalloid then wait a month for it to settle
before I bottle.
I been doing this for years. I usually make "over" 100 Gallons ea year.
Hope this helps
Tom

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"Frank" > wrote in message
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> Does anyone have any advice for using Sparkalloid to filter my wines.
> This is my second year making wine. Last year, after my wines cleared
> (3 - 4 months), I'd stabalize them and allow to bulk age for another 2
> - 3months. I filtered the wine (using coffee filters) and bottled.
> Although, the wine was clear when I bottled after a few months every
> bottle had brownish sediment in it. This year I invested in a better
> filtration system and bought Sparkalloid powder. However, reading the
> directions for the sparkalloid it appears that for every gallon of wine
> I need to add 1 tsp of powder to 2 cups of warm or boiling water then
> add to the wine. I can't do that. Most of my wine is aging in gallon
> carboys with less than an inch between the top of the wine and the air
> lock. Nor would I want to dilute the wine with a couple of cups of
> water per gallon. So, I'm thinking my two choices are to throw away the
> Sparkalloid (and just filter the wine) or add the powder directly to
> the wine and stir. What have other people done?
>