Hi, This may be a simple question, but google and Jack's website and this newsgroup doesn't seem to have an answer (or I'm a little slow on my searches).
I bottled a gallon of Welch's Concord too early, because it is cloudy. I had followed Jack's recipe, and stablized it, etc. It looked ok, until I put it into 350ml clear bottles, then I could tell it was a bit cloudy.
So 7 days after bottling, I got up my nerve and I uncorked the bottles and put the wine back into a carboy and added 1-2 teaspoon of sparkolloid (after desolving in 1-2 cup of cold water, per instructions). Then I realized I don't have any spare airlocks - so the question is, if I seal the top -- is that ok?
The carboy has a screw top - so I put it on and have started a cold treatment on the wine. there is less then 1-2 inch air on top.
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So, if the wine is stablized, and done. Can I just seal the 2 weeks while the sparkolloid does it's magic, or am I doing something to it by not having an airlock?
DAve p.s. Besides the airlock missing, am I nutz for uncorking and trying to move it forward again? After I found out I should wait up to a year to drink , I thought - man, oh, man, wait a year KNOWING it's cloudy. stupid.
