I've made a lot of country wines from scratch before, but am doing my first kit wine now - an Australian Semillon that my local homebrew shop gave me because it was a bit too old to sell (great guy).
The instructions list bottling after about 35 days, but I'll probably want to age it in the carboy a bit longer. Since I've never done a kit wine, or a grape wine before, should I:
1) Follow the kit instructions and timing for everything, including the potassium sorbate and isinglass and stirring to drive off CO2, then just leave it in the carboy for a few more months, or2) Just make my own schedule for rackings like I do with other wines, but leave the final stabilizing, clarification and degassing until the last racking before bottling maybe a few months from now.
Or does it really matter?