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Got this a month ago, but couldnt use it as my wine was too young at the time. They recommend not filtering with the pump if the wine is only 30 days old and prefer you waiting until your wine is at least 2 to 3 months old. So I waited a month as my wine was just 45 days old at the time I received the pump. So used it today and it worked great. You have to follow all directions and the first time using it, keep the directions handy for reference as you go. I can say this, if you do not follow their recomendations and directions, you will have a mess. It didnt happen to me, but I could see at certain stages of filtration that messes could easily happen for those that dont follow the directions and/or recommendations. I got all the parts together on the counter, cleaned and sanitized the tubing and filter tray and other parts. Had my carboy of wine there next to the pump, and the carboy for pumping to. I also had an extra container to run the overflow tube into. The overflow tray catches minor leaks and drips from the filters which is going to happen. But as long as you have the tube hooked up and into the container, you will be okay. One thing your should do is make sure that your extra container for the overflow is below the level of the counter since the downslope is needed for the overflow tray and tube to work. Just like you needing to have your carboy lower than your wine carboy when you rack your wine. Same with the overflow. Takes some arranging to have a small table or box to set your overflow container so it will be below the level of your counter. then you soak your 3 filters you are going to use in a bowl of water for a minute or 2. Then put them in the right orientation in the filter area of the pump. Make sure you double check the orientation. The filters have a smooth side and a rough side. The rough side is the side that will be facing you as you install them. You have to use all 3 filters of that set. Once you have the filters installed and and the face plate is clamped down on them, hook up all your tubing. Then you have a gallon or two of water in another container on the counter and place your intake and output tubing into it and run the pump to pump water through for about a minute or two to check that all is hooked up as it should be and to get the pump going well. do not run the pump with no liquids being pumped. You will burn it up. All through these procedures it does help alot to have someone there to assist you. Otherwise you might need to grow a spare hand or two. Once you have run the water through for a couple of minutes, place your output tube in the carboy you are pumping your wine to, and the input tube into your wine carboy. And make sure your overflow tube is in your overflow container. Ooops one thing I forgot. You need to put your output tube into the container that you had your water in and once you turn on your pump for the wine, let it pump into it for a few seconds till your wine is coming out because it will pump water at first from the water that you had pumped through it to prime your pump. As soon as you see wine coming out the output tube you can shut down the pump and put the tube back into your receiving carboy. Then start your pump back up and watch you wine flow into the carboy. Sparkling clear and looking good. I used a number 2 filter as my wine had been racked enough to get it pretty clear. If your wine is young, or you have used ingrediants that left pieces in your wine, you should use a number 1 filter as well as getting the company's prefilter which is designed to catch the pieces...small ones..that might be left in your wine. If they go through your pump it could be damaged. Once your wine has finished running through the filter, shut it off, do your cleanup and let your wine rest for a few days before you either bottle it or run through another filttration with a set of the finer filters. If you need to filter more than 5 or 6 gallons of wine, you need to let the pump cool off for 1 5 or 20 minutes before you filter any more than the first 5 or 6 gallons. Again, let your wine rest for several days before you bottle it or filter it more. Filtering your wine causes it to be agitated. If you try to bottle at the time you filter you stand a chance of your wine developing bottle shock. Which ruins your wine. I cannot stress enough that you read the directions well, and follow their recomendations and directions. If you do, you should have no problems. Things can happen though despite the best preparation so if you see leaking that is greater than you expect, be prepared to shut the pump off and check your setup. Also, as I said above, it does help if you have someone there to assist you. Helps a great deal. The wine that ends up in your overflow container can be either put into your output carboy or you can set it aside for a refreshing drink as you take a break after you clean your work area and filter. On average, you might get get from a cups worth or several cups worth go into the overflow. Its going to happen but dont be concerned if you get 3 or 4 cups worth. Just put into your output carboy or drink it. Preferably you drink it after you are finished with everything...you dont want to be buzzed and try to work at the same time...or maybe you do. Good luck.

I've been using the Buon Vino Mini Jet Wine Filter for my home winemaking endeavors, and it's been a fantastic tool. The filter performs exceptionally well in clarifying wine, and I appreciate its user-friendliness. It's straightforward to set up and operate, which is a huge plus for both novice and experienced winemakers. A key tip for users is to ensure the filter screws are tightly secured - this makes a significant difference in performance. I mostly use the middle filter for my wine, which seems to strike the perfect balance for clarity and flavor. It's also important to keep the pick up tube out of trub (common sense) until the end of the process, as the filter pads can clog quickly otherwise. I recently used this filter to bottle six batches of wine for my wedding, and it performed flawlessly. The consistency and quality it brought to each batch were remarkable. I'm definitely planning to continue using this for my future wine-making projects. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a reliable and efficient wine filtering solution.

I don't review much on here, but I had been on the fence about buying this and ultimately gambled and wanted to leave a review for others like me. I've filtered two ~5 gallon meads with this thing, and man what an incredible difference before and after. I should preface: these meads had a hard life. I started them in non-ideal conditions and had a few AC outages this year that caused them to get far too warm. They had a lot of off flavor, and looked like lake water after 7 months (after two rackings each, there was no more sediment forming). I assumed they were either ruined or would take a few years to maybe possibly age to the point of borderline enjoy-ability. Enter the Buon Vino. I gambled and decided to see if filtration would help. I have experience with sub-micron levels of filtering through my job as a chemist, so I wasn't going in completely blind to what these filters could achieve. Man what a difference. Where before there was lake water, after there was mead I could read large print through. And far more importantly, the off flavors are almost entirely gone. I won't pretend they're prize winners but with some back-sweetening they'll be fine meads. Now here I'll give some usage tips, which I think is where a lot of the negative feedback comes in. Soak the pads, as they say in the instructions. This allows a tight seal to form, if you try to use the pads dry they'll spurt like you hit an artery. Run 5 gallons of clean water (and before that I'd recommend a small amount of food safe sanitizer like starsan) through the pump to flush the pads well, and TIGHTEN THE PADS AGAIN AFTERWARDS. The extra pressure and water will work the last bit of air out and allow a perfect seal on the pads. If you did it right the drip tray will be virtually empty by the end. And finally, most importantly, understand what filter you're using. Filters by their very nature clog with the crap they're trying to get out... if you use a filter that has a small pore size and you're running liquid through it that has large gunk in it, the filter will clog very very quickly... and your machine will again begin to spray liquid. Do NOT try and filter liquid that hasn't already been racked (you can rack with this if you buy the mesh screen for it and bypass the filter with a tube, but it isn't better than a racking cane). If you've racked once already and want to try filtration, Id use a #1 (Coarse) filter and be right at the ready to cut the pump if you start to see the filters plug up (they'll drip excessively before they squirt). If you've racked twice (or already coarse filtered) I'd run the liquid through a #2 polishing filter. That will visibly clean the liquid, probably to reading clarity. The #3 filter seems like overkill unless you suspect you've contaminated the ferment and want to try to save it... I'd be far more concerned about loss of flavor with a #3 filter than a #2, so I personally wouldn't make it standard practice. The bad reviews I read about this product are almost textbook cases of using it wrong, and probably mostly not using the right filter. If you try to filter a single racked wine/mead with this thing using a number 2 filter, be ready for possible stuck pig syndrome with liquid spurting. There's a decent chance you clog the filters, which is a mess. But if you follow the directions in the manual and use the advice above you should have an easier go of it.

First off, this is a vastly better product than the Harris filter. It is much more stable and works MUCH more quickly. It is easy to clean and (as long as you watch the video on youtube from the company - attached below) it is easy to use, for the most part. It is important that you read ALL of the instructions (sometimes a couple of times because the instructions are not 100% clear) so you know how to clean it and use the filters. The best thing about it is it does its job. The #1 and #2 filters that are used with it work fine (I usually only use the #2 filter because I haven't made a very heavy wine with it yet). HOWEVER, I have had nothing but trouble with the #3 filter and have wasted time, money, and wine due to this process. At first, I was ambitious and used the #2 and #3 right after each other and, when I used the #3 pad, wine sprayed EVERYWHERE. The instructions (which I had failed to notice in this area) say to wait a couple of days to let the wine settle - I did that - and it still spilled everywhere - shooting out of the pads like a fountain. I tried maneuvering the pads, soaking the pads longer, running water through the pads first to test it - nothing worked!! I refuse to use the #3 pad. I really have not seen any problems with not using it. I have used it on regular red wine, white wine, and ice wine - which the #3 is suggested for ice wine. Without the #3 pads, the wine comes out just fine. One tip in regards to the filter. At times, the filter seems to not have enough suction when pulling the wine out of the carboy. If this happens, turn on the filter (while the tube is in the carboy) and for a split second remove and then reattach the short out take tube that goes from the motor to the filter (remove the end attached to the filter). That will create a stronger suction and will get the wine to move through the tube with ease. In regards to the drip tray. Watch it very carefully. It tends to fill up quickly before it has time to drain through the tube. If you find it is not draining properly, make sure the drip tube is fully extended down into wherever you are leading it into (it's all about the gravity). So here's the breakdown - I definitely suggest this product if you are making 6 gallons or less (I cannot attest to anything more than 6 gallons). I most certainly DO NOT suggest wasting your time on the #3 filter pad. Here is the link on how to use the filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeohQosn34M

This has been a fantastic addition to my home winemaking. It works great! I like the option of 3 filter sizes which gives me a lot of control. I find the filters are not a bad price at all for the return I get in wine quality. I have started with coarse and finished with the polishing pads on a few harder to clear wines. I find the filters are not a bad price at all for the return I get in wine quality. The pump is loud but not an issue for me. The wire inside the pickup tube is a great idea for keeping it in place and the perfect depth. The filters are going to leak a small amount but it has a catch tray and drain tube for that, no big issue for me. This thing is easy to use and does a wonderful job. My wines now look professional as the polishing filters gives my white wines a high gloss look and I don't have to worry about the unsightly sediment from my reds. This thing is well made, easy to clean, and easy to maintain. My first time using it looked like a circus act from lack of experience but I quickly developed a routine and now its a snap. I often filter more than one batch back to back. I feel I will get a lot of service from this pump.

I usually dont give bad reviews on products, but in this case.....I am so furious I wasted my money on this machine! For over 3 years now I have been using a simple Vinbrite wine filter. It works like a charm but as my Batch sizes started to increase I needed a filter with a pump to handle larger amounts of wine,. I bought this filter thinking it could handle the load....WRONG! You have to use 3 filters per Batch processing, the drip tray does all of the liquid catching while nothing goes through the main filtering hose. Not only that... the tiniest bubble in the catch tray hose backs up the whole tray and causes it to overflow. Dont even get me started on setting this machine up...NOT WORTH THE EFFORT! I didn't even get to filter a whole 5 gallons before wine started spraying every which way! I gave up and hooked the pump up to my vinebrite filter.... worked like a charm. I could have just bought myself a small water pump and saved myself the trouble.

First: if you can get it to work, the end product is outstanding. That said, getting it to work without spraying your precious wine all over the room will have you running out of profanity so fast you'll be inventing new words that even Mr. Webster can't define. So here are a few tips that have kept me from throwing my Buon Vino in the trash: 1. Take a drink of wine. 2. Remove the knobs that tighten the filter plates and thrown them in the trash. Replace then with 3/8" 16tpi nuts. Take another drink of wine. 3. Once you have soaked and properly installed your filters, use a 7/16" wrench to tighten the filter plates evenly (15-16 exposed threads on each side works best for me. Sample your wine. 4. Take a c-clamp or similar tool and use it to clamp the assembly from the center of the front and back plates, being sure to clamp it at the same level as the nuts/bolts. This insures that your plates are evenly tightened overall, instead of just at the ends (yes, metal does flex). Try some more wine. 4. Turn on the pump and adjust as necessary to minimize leaks (some are normal). 5. If it still sprays your wine all over the room, throw the @#$^& thing in the trash and bottle your wine as is. It may not be crystal clear, but it'll still taste just as good.

NEGATIVE REVIEWS. Before I buy something I always read the negative reviews. Why you might ask? Because after reading them I find out the simple mistakes or lack of common sense. Ok you can read them for yourself. This item along with filters #1, 2, & 3 arrived on time with no damage. After reading the directions I found out that filtering a fruit base wine with a lot of wine must in the carboy. I knew that filtering it was not an option until I strained it threw a flour sifter first. Always do this if you have a lot of fruit in your carboy. I went to a big lot store bought a flour sifter and 5 feet of 1/2 inch plastic clear tube. I drained the wine threw the sifter, stopping a few times to clean out the plugged sifter. After it was empty and the wine in another carboy then I put in the filter stating with #1 then #2 and finishing with #3. The 3 filter is a .5 micron filter the last you use. I soaked all my pads before using them. screwed the plate on as per the instructions and had NO problems filtering the wine at all. In total I filtered 18 gallons of wine. Three different types. Only one carboy was made with heavy fruit and that's the I ran threw the sifter first. The other 2 were kit wines So I used filters 2 and 3. Yes I would recommend this filter to some one who maybe thinking about buying it. Remember just use a little common sense and don't be in a big hurry. This pump works great but it takes some time. But making a good wine takes time as well.