[Maui Joe]

The lavender oil is great. It has such a peacful "calming" attitude about it which is "quite pleasing." I find it very interesting but I admit I am abit apprehensive in doing a "herbal" experiement until I threw this thought out there. After hearing from you, maybe I'll give ita try soon. Much thanks for the info!


Martina, did you use a "white grape" base and a good water, etc.? I am assuming that we just use the flowers and buds, excluding stems, etc.?

[Maui Joe]

MP, thanks for the info. The Lavender sounds more interesting to me now. Please let us know how it turned out.

[MedPretzel]

Originally Posted by Maui Joe

The lavender oil is great. It has such a peacful "calming" attitude about it which is "quite pleasing." I find it very interesting but I admit I am abit apprehensive in doing a "herbal" experiement until I threw this thought out there. After hearing from you, maybe I'll give ita try soon. Much thanks for the info!


Martina, did you use a "white grape" base and a good water, etc.? I am assuming that we just use the flowers and buds, excluding stems, etc.?

Sorry I'm just answering now, MauiJoe. I've been a little sidetracked lately, so I'm sorry for the late reply.


For my lavender wine, I used no concentrate base -- the base will be lavender. CountryWine discourages the use, and so I thought I would try it out that way. It still smells wonderful -- even after 2 months. I am very excited about it. It hasn't shown signs of clearing, and so I think that maybe I might add some fining agents to it. I am not very familiar with them, so this might be an experiment. (just like all my wines!!!)


For my chrysanthemum wine, however, I did use a purple-grape base. It turned out to be rose, and, if I may say so myself, it won a 1st place in the county fair here, so it's pretty good at least.


I also have made a marigold wine, using a purple-grape concentrate. Sorry, CW.... I think it tastes pretty good, but I only have 2 bottles left and I'm going to try and save them for at least another 6 months. yeah, right.


This year, I've been toying with the idea to leave the grape concentrate out of the recipe because of CW's suggestions. I don't know if the wines will have enough body, but we will find out at the end, I guess.





Again, I'm so sorry for the delayed response!



martina

[MedPretzel]

Oh, I simply used tap water and I just used the petals of the chrysanthemums and marigolds.





I bought the lavender from www.oldtimeherbs.com and I can only recommend buying herbs there. They are very quick to ship and very reasonably priced.

[Maui Joe]

MP, much thanks for sharing!

[Chief]

Originally Posted by geocorn

That is my number one reason for bulk aging. It seems that once the wine gets in the bottle, it is "fair game" and they do not get a chance to bottle age.

I'm with you George. I won't bottle any thing unless it's at least three month old. I built a new wine cellar. If mention it to any one they want to "see"


I think the best version is when my daughter and grandaughter help me bottle some wine. My daughter was filling a case with wine and my grand-daughter said: He wanted to age that wine before giving it away." My daughter replied: It'll age at my place just as good as it does here."


Chief

[sundee]

hi this looks like a pretty active forum soo i need some help from all u wine makers PLEASE......................... i would like to buy 5 gallon glass carboys new (hopefully) but as cheap as possible, they dont have to be new but clear in color..........................


i have searched high and low and cant seem to find any if anyone has any for sale please email me or give me a call at (918)635-5233 or email me at sundee@clnk.com or if you guys have a website that i caan buy them............. thankyou so much sundee

[greenbean]

Sundee,

This is a wine making supply website. This forum is just part of it.

Geocorn is the owner he can tell you all you want to know.

[geocorn]

Sundee,


5-gallon glass carboys are all over the net. I think my prices are at the low end, but the real cost is in the shipping. The good news is that it costs about the same to ship 2 as it does 1, so if you order in multiples of 2, the shipping cost on the second carboy is vertually nil. If you would like a quote, please give me call at 866-417-1114.


By the way, thanks for the kudos, Greenbean.

[greenbean]

Anytime