Vintners harvest fruit base kit for elderberry advises to stir every day, being careful to only stir the top half of the wine and not disturb the deiment in the primary during primary fermentaton.
I plan to ignore this unless, perhaps, one of you can give me a good reason for this and why I have never seen such an instruction before?
Cheers
Sean
IT might be good to contact them and ask them for their reasoning. Most wine kit companies are more than happy to answer your questions. It may have to do with the yeast rather than the wine. I have seen instructions for starting wine by sprinkling dry yeast on the surface and not stirring it in. The second day you stir it only down about 1 inch. The third day you stir it several inches down. after that you can stir it all the way down. Supposedly this keeps the rapidly multiplying yeast cells near the surface where they can get for air which is necessary during reproduction. But contact the company and let us know what they say.
Ray
Must have been a cheap kit. Oh well, that does not mean it will not turn out. The best rule with a strange kit is to follow the instructions exatly as given. But then I frequently break rules -- any rules.
Ray
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