Bottled Turbo WineDorothy, I started fermenting it some 6 weeks ago and the thing stopped fermenting. I did stabilize with sulfite. I am a novice winemaler and this is my first attempt so bare...
Yeah, I'm having a big problem with them myself, there seems to be more and more around, no matter how much I clean the area. I have my primarys and secondarys under airlocks with sulfitied water -- more than half full, so they can't get in. Only one has managed to water itself in an airlock so far.
I did a google groups search of this newsgroup when I first noticed the problem. Most people don't agree with the adage that the fruit fly is the only source of vinegar bacteria, or that one fruit fly landing is a hopeless inoculation with mother of vinegar. Just try to keep them out, and we should be fine.
I tried one trick I read: I put some must in a wine bottle to trap them. That didn't really work well, only caught a couple in each. In an open glbutt, I was able to water a couple dozen in a day and a half, but I barely made a dent in the population. So now I just keep wiping surfaces around my wines with bleach cleanser. I'll get those little bastards yet -- drinking my wine without putting any effort in whatsoever, who do they think they are anyway?
