Hi, I have been making wine from kits ( cellarmaster) for a couple years and
have noticed I often get a soapy taste in my finished product. I use TSP to
clean the fermentor and carboy ( plastic) and metasulphite to sanitize all
equipment. I make sure to rinse all equipment with cold tap water after
sanitizing. I rack off the wine several times to get rid of sediment ( I
thought that was the culprit) but still get a soapy taste.
Any thoughts on what is going wrong?

David & Samantha Christmann wrote:
> Hi, I have been making wine from kits ( cellarmaster) for a couple years and
> have noticed I often get a soapy taste in my finished product. I use TSP to
> clean the fermentor and carboy ( plastic) and metasulphite to sanitize all
> equipment. I make sure to rinse all equipment with cold tap water after
> sanitizing. I rack off the wine several times to get rid of sediment ( I
> thought that was the culprit) but still get a soapy taste.
> Any thoughts on what is going wrong?

Ethyl Laurate maybe?

Have you been using the same strain of yeast on all of these wine?

Andy