Clearing plum wine 102

Hello, Your wine is very young, and you're fine. I've made plum wine, and you need to give it more time to clear on its own. I usually don't bottle my wine until it is about 8 months old - which might include 2-4 rackings in that 8 months depending on how cloudy the wine is. Yes, it sounds like you have too much head space in your carboy and that would be a concern. You need to get your wine in 1 or more carboys with bungs and airlocks with very little head room. I do 1 gallon batches and there is barely 1 inch of headspace between the wine and the bung. Do keep some wine back for top-up - when you rack the wine off the sediment (which will continue to drop over the next few months). I like to keep all my wine in the dark as much as possible, especially when you're aging it. I wait until the wine is clear before bottling. If you bottle a young cloudy wine, you'll get sediment in your bottles, so you need to decide if that's acceptable or not. The most I get in my bottles is a dusting of sediment. I let time do its work - I've only had to fine with bentonite 2 or three wines in the 4 years I've been making wine. Good-luck. Plum wine is a yummy wine. Darlene Wisconsin