Another day, another wine.  I have wanted to do a rosé, so here we go.  Standard stuff, but there are DIRE warnings about oxidation, down to taking gravity readings through the bubbler hole using a tube.

When I bought the kit I was handed a nice new bottle of chitosan, as they had clearly had problems with the stuff in the kits.  Sure enough, when I opened the box, the “chitosan” inside was mouldy.  The kit included tartaric acid, bentosil must conditioner and grape skin tannin, but they just went in one after the other as per the instructions.  The only other thing to note is that after my assiduous 5 minutes of stirring I got an OG of 1080, which was lower than the lowest reading that they suggest in the instructions (1090-1082).  I don’t think I had too much water either.