Only been making wine for about 3 years, made some decent stuff though, mostly elderberry wine.
Got a batch on the go now that I started in september last year, it looks ok, a nice dark colour, but instead of having all the sediment at the bottom as has been the case in my previous batches, this time there is some floating sediment (for want of a better word).
I have it in glass demijohns, filled right up to the neck, and looking at the wine carefully I can see small bits of floating debris or sedement at the top, not a lot of it, but there its there just floating around near the top of the vessel, and when i pick the demijohn up gently, sediment on the bottom immediately lifts off and floats around, in the past i have only seen a lightish coloured sediment at the bottom, and when the vessel is picked up gently, it lays undisturbed, it didn't float around like it does now.
I have racked this wine once, before i racked it, it was exactly the same as it is now, only more floating sediment, and the inside of the demijohn was clouded up at the top with a film of some sort of material. All these symtoms I'm describing were not there at all when I've made it previously, athough i have used a different recipe, maybe this is the reason why its acting differently.
It tastes and smells OK though, nothing wrong in that department.
Got a batch on the go now that I started in september last year, it looks ok, a nice dark colour, but instead of having all the sediment at the bottom as has been the case in my previous batches, this time there is some floating sediment (for want of a better word).
I have it in glass demijohns, filled right up to the neck, and looking at the wine carefully I can see small bits of floating debris or sedement at the top, not a lot of it, but there its there just floating around near the top of the vessel, and when i pick the demijohn up gently, sediment on the bottom immediately lifts off and floats around, in the past i have only seen a lightish coloured sediment at the bottom, and when the vessel is picked up gently, it lays undisturbed, it didn't float around like it does now.
I have racked this wine once, before i racked it, it was exactly the same as it is now, only more floating sediment, and the inside of the demijohn was clouded up at the top with a film of some sort of material. All these symtoms I'm describing were not there at all when I've made it previously, athough i have used a different recipe, maybe this is the reason why its acting differently.
It tastes and smells OK though, nothing wrong in that department.
