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3. Boil some water in a pot on the stove and allow it to cool
to room temperature while covered. Clean and sanitize
another fermentation vessel as well as the racking tube and
tubing. Place the sanitized vessel on the floor in front of the
secondary fermenter, put the plastic tubing in the vessel, and
put the racking tube in the secondary fermenter. Operate the
racking tube and transfer the wine from the old vessel to the
new. Add one Campden tablet dissolved in wine for each
gallon of wine.
4. Likely, there is an air space between the wine and the top
of the new vessel. This will expose too much surface area of
the wine to oxygen and potential infections. Pour in the
sterilized water until the wine is just up to the neck.
5. Clean the rubber stopper and airlock, sanitize them, re-fill
the airlock with sanitizing solution, and install them on the
new secondary fermenter. Put the secondary fermenter in a
location without sunlight and with even temperature.
6. Thoroughly clean and sanitize the empty secondary
fermenter, the racking tube and the tubing.
