Wine Kit Instructions

[Qs]

So I've done one wine kit previously and have 2 here to start now. These instructions recommend moving from primary to secondary, then secondary back to the first fermenter. My questions is is this necessary? I know most beer kit instructions recommend secondary when most brewers nowadays avoid it. Is there a similar situation with wine? I'm brewing a lot at the moment so have limited spare fermenter space.

[Simon_]

I've found it to be unnecessary. I've found allowing a good bit longer in the first vessel after you've added all your clearing agents and then racking to a bottling, giving it a few more days to settle, there very little crap left at the bottom of the second vessel.

[tigri]

I'm quite new to the home wine making so cannot tell for sure but I think there are two main reason for racking between primary and secondary fermentation.
Firstly, to leave sediment behind and in effect aid in wine clarification/stabilization.

Secondly, if your primary fermenter is large (eg. 30-33 liters fermenter for 23 liters wine kit), as it should be, since the primary fermentation can be vigorous, racking it to the smaller one (23 liters DJ) once the fermentation is much less vigorous would reduce the exposure of the wine to the oxygen.
The following article may explain it better:
http://www.eckraus.com/blog/oxygen-a-wines-friend-or-foe

I don't think racking at this stage is absolutely necessary, especially if you don't expect to keep the wine for long period of time.

[Qs]

My instructions have primary, secondary and degassing all in different vessels. I'm wondering can I get away with 2 instead of 3? Its in a bucket now (easier for adding the kit) but I want to age it in a glass carboy anyway. Can I get away with this with no ill effects (or in the case of brewing with better effects/less oxidation.).

[Simon_]

Yeah it'll be fine. Just make sure when you're siphoning that there's no splashing. Best if the wine leaves very little head space in the carboy. And equally when degassing don't splash.
But will you not need to transfer to a bottling bucket to bottle anyway?

[Qs]

Yeah I will but not until the wine has been well aged.