Two Year Merlot

This batch of Merlot started as a kit.  A 30-day kit.  Don't get me started on why anyone would want wine produced in 30 days, it should suffice to say that I threw the directions from the kit out and started with this recipe.  I had intended to use that recipe to modify the kit from a 30-day kit to a 180-day kit.  Two years later I get around to bottling it.  Here is my log:

1. 4/16/07: Rehydrate juice to proper volume, added grape tannin and 6 cups of sugar to bring up the starting SG to 1.095.  Rehydrated fresh red wine Lalvin yeast using a starter culture, and pitched 6 hrs later.
   
2. 4/26/07: Added the rest of the juice after vigourous fermentation subsided.
3. 5/28/07: Checked SG: 0.990. Awesome.
4. 6/25/07: Checked SG: 0.988. Added prepped bentonite, oak chips, potassium metabisulfite + sorbate, and finings
5. 3/27/09: Bottle at SG 0.988, after adding 1 campden tablet per gallon