Hi:
I need some help on 2 Chardonnay kits that I fined 2 weeks ago with liquid isinglass. Nothing happened, they're as "muddy" as they were if not worse. One was started in Feb, the other in Apr. Both were cold fermented, left on lees for 2 months, treated with bentonite about 3 months into their life and racked 1-2x. One of them has no CO2, the other has quite a lot of it, which I've been removing with Vacuvin - I understand this can be a factor, but the degassed batch is not clearing either.
The basic question is whether I should just leave them alone or try to fine some more - perhaps with kieselsol followed by dry isinglass or maybe gelatin? I'm not pressured to finish them now but don't want to leave the fining in the wine for too long - but then I have to get it out of suspension first somehow.
I've read that liquid isinglass is less dependable than dry, is it possible it deteriorated in the bottle before I used it? I had the bottle for a while, but it was unopened until I used it on the Chards.
Thx,
Pp