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wine not clearing

Currently I have a kit made red wine sitting in a carboy waiting to clear. I added isinglass per the instructions that came with the kit and waited the suggested seven days. When the wine did not clear, I waited another seven days, again per the kit instructions. Still, the wine is cloudy. Any suggestions? Add more isinglass or other fining? Decant to another carboy and wait some more? Just wait some more? Forget it and just bottle it? Other thoughts?

I have done other kits without hitting this problem.

Thanks.

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Njord
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I have been using sparkaloid for my past few wines and am very pleased with the results. My wines are almost brilliantly clear withing 2 days of adding.

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JD

JD, I am a Sparkolloid fan also. But Sparkolloid has one disadvantage. It produces very fine lees. The lees require _several_ week to completely settle, so bottling should not be done in less than two months of a Sparkolloid fining. Lum Del Mar, California, USA

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Lum

I had a fruit wine that would not clear a while ago and tries gelatin, it's a 50 mile drive to the wine store to pick up another clearing agent and one of the wine books suggested unflavoured gelatin. About a third of one of the small pacs in the box and it worked like a charm.

Rick

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RKG

Did you make sure to degas the wine thoroughly before adding the isinglass? I use a piece of sturdy but flexible tubing that I picked up at Home Depot. I attach it to my cordless drill and whip it for a few minutes to drive off the gas. The gas can suspend the particles causing the fining agent not to work properly. Thanks,

David

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Thanks for your reply, David. Yes, I followed the kit instructions which called for degassing several times before and once when adding the isinglass.

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Njord

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