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Posted: 2/27/2015 4:45:59 PM EDT
A friend of mine bottled me 40 bottles of Muscadine wine.  I am wanting to give them as gifts in the future.  There is a lot of settlement in the bottom of the bottles.  Does not look like pulp, it almost looks like a layer of sugar. You can shake up the bottle and it will mix up. (Sorta)  my friend says it is the yeast.
From the time I gave him the grapes to the finished product was a month.
My question is can I uncork this wine and re bottle it and not get the settlement in the new bottles?
I have bought all the stuff to start making my own wine in the future but I hate to wast all this wine.

Link Posted: 3/2/2015 12:19:23 PM EDT
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Dont sweat the sediment on the bottom.  I dont know how long muscadine wine traditionally ferments and clears for, but It will be fine. A month to the bottle seems really fast. It never had a chance to fully clear, and thats what its doing in the bottle.

If you want to keep the sediment away from your glass, store them upright in a cool place for a while. It will settle to the bottom, and carefully pour the wine to your glass. You might lose a little bit of tasty liquid, but thats the trade off.

I wouldnt bother rebottling. Its just too much of a chance of oxidising the wine and making it worse.
Link Posted: 3/3/2015 12:46:43 AM EDT
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There is no way that should have been bottled.  Is the wine any good?
Link Posted: 3/11/2015 8:23:03 PM EDT
[#3]
Did you degas the wine before bottling?
Link Posted: 3/18/2015 11:48:36 AM EDT
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This.  Four weeks from grapes to bottled wine is why you have sediment and a wine that is not clear.  If it tastes OK, then there is no major problem, but this was a rush-job wine, and it is what it is.  Let it settle in the bottle, and if the taste is good, enjoy it as-is.

The wine should have been given time to clarify, then have been racked off of the sediment prior to bottling.
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