The old business adage is true. If you have experience, you make good decisions. How do you get experience? By making bad decisions.
We’ve adopted some steps that many home winemakers avoid in response to problems.
Most of the time we bottle wine without incident but from time to time, the wine that seemed perfectly clear will throw a sediment a month or so later. Now we rack from carboys into gallon jugs and rack five bottles at a time as I need them. Since I make wine at least twice a year (when the California grapes come in, when the local grapes are ready and in the spring for