"John Fouts" > wrote in message
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> Thanks to both of you that responded. I had sweetened my wine about 3
> weeks ago, and did not add any sorbate. I understand that a secondary
> fermentation must have occurred. I will add sorbate when my peach wine is
> finished, and after it has been sweetened. Can this be added immediately
> following the sweetening solution?

I suggest that you uncork any bottles of the strawberry still corked and
stabilize them. You were lucky that the corks popped instead of the bottles
shattering.

A few years ago, I tried making a cream wine by adding some grape syrup to a
gallon jug that had stopped fermenting months before and bottling soon
after. About a month later I was outside working on something when my wife
ran out to tell me of a series of explosions in the cellar. I went to check
and found that the bottles had all blown up, scattering shards of glass
around the wine cellar. Had anyone been in there at the time, they would
have been seriously injured.

Paul