BuonVinoFilter

                                        INSTRUCTIONS:

For the use of a Buon Vino Mini Jet filter unit.                           Please be gentle

(These instructions contain excerpts from both Buon Vino's own instructions and Winemakers' advice.)

Filter pad insertion:
Coarse side faces towards the black hand wheels. #1 pads are coarse and should be used for wines made from
fruit which has pulp or larger particles. #2 pads are a medium pad and are recommended for wines made from
concentrates or juice without pulp. #3 sterile pads will make a white wine shine. They should only be used with
white wines that have already been filtered once with a #2 pad. One set of pads should filter 23 liters of a wine
that is reasonably clear to start with.   Filtering is not a short cut for a reasonable clearing and settling period.
Do not try to filter dirty wine. The result will not be pretty.

Prior to filtering (ideally a few days prior), rack your wine into a clean container. Trying to filter a wine that is still
sitting on significant amounts of sediment (lees) is doomed to stir up sediment and block filter pads.

Place pads in clean water to soak. Loosen the black hand wheels and remove the two inside plastic plates.
Place the pads snugly into the filter body and put the plates back in place. The holes in the plates and the
filters must line up, and the plates and filters should be even across the top. If the plates or pads are placed
backwards, filtration will not take place, (the shoulders on both filter pads and plastic plates are slightly offset to
assist you in proper placement). Tighten the hand wheels.

Filter unit set-up:
Before going ahead with filtering the wine, WINEMAKERS strongly recommends filtering two gallons of water as a
trial run. This will rinse paper fibers out of the pads, will enable you to tighten down hand wheels, and (most
importantly) will give you a practice run to make sure pump is set up and working properly. Insert the intake
hose which contains the stainless steel wire (to maintain hose shape) onto the pump (B on diagram). Insert the
slightly larger diameter outtake tube into the exit nozzle (C on the diagram). Place the intake hose into the wine
to be filtered. Place the outtake tube into the container for the finished wine. Attach the small tube to the drip
tray and collect this run off into a separate jug for refiltering. Note that there may be more resistance for this
overflow fluid within the overflow tube than there is for it to spill over the sides of the overflow tray so you must
keep it running downhill.

Filtering:
The pump should not be run dry. Filter clean wine as much as possible. As soon as sediment starts blocking
up filter pads, the filter unit will start spitting wine out the sides. Young wines still have carbon dioxide in them
and may be frothy. Do not attempt to bottle directly from filter unit. Bottle as a separate operation.

Clean-up:
Please run clean water through the filter unit after filtering to clean out the motor and hoses. Discard dirty filters
and rinse plastic filter plates. A light scrub of the plates with a fingernail brush is best. Rinse all hoses by
putting one end against running tap and replace the hoses in proper place. Be gentle removing hoses to not
break off the hose nipples. Do not tighten black knobs against filter plates.