Making Commercial-Quality Kit Wine at Home, Part 2

More info on making quality wine at home for those who are new at the process:
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Finishing and Bottling the Wine

Depending on the kit, the wine will have to sit and age for 3-6 weeks, allowing fermentations to all but cease and allowing the tannins and flavors to develop in the wine. The kit instructions may call for racking the wine one or more times during this period to take the wine off of the spent yeast. Be careful to introduce as little air into the process as possible to avoid oxidation, which gives the wine an off-flavor.

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