Alex wrote:
> Hi Again
> further to the helpful advice given by this group a short time ago, I have
> had my wine in secondary fermentation for three weeks, my wine is making
> around one bubble
> every few minutes. Assuming when I take a hydrometer reading it is 1000 I am
> going to rack into a clean demijon.
> Do I need to top up the demijon? I have heard that you can use a simular
> wine, as I do not have any I would have to use water? Is this ok or will it
> dilute the wine?
>
>
> Thanks Alex K

Filtered apple juice (usually from concentrate) has no character at all,
but would dilute the wine a lot less than water. That's what I use to
make up the difference when I'm making jelly and don't have quite enough
juice.

As someone else has mentioned, you can also add glass marbles to take up
the space.

Best regards,
Bob