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tending the grape bag daily From the FVW original forum I had picked up on using a stirring spoon to pin the bag down with the lid snapped on to the fermenter. I also have a large commercial potato masher i use to press the bag of grapes down to the floor of the fermenter on a daily basis. I...

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RJS Winery Series Super Tuscan is ahead so far.

Tonight I cracked open a Cellar Craft Rosso FortissimoReserve Cuvee Super Tuscan Style . It is gettng there. bottled 4/11. Liked it alot. Tomorrow I will try a RJS Winery series Super Tuscan same bottle date. Let you know.

Kits all the way. RJS most of the way. Winery series seems the way. way good.

Wade , which floor corker? the Italian w/brass or the Portuguese w/nylon iris.

From what George has told me in an emailyou are correct. The wax coating on the corks should not be disturbed by sanitizing or soaking or handling etc. One small detail I missed.

I do not soak the corks but I do pour metabisulphitesolution over them to sanitize and the corks may be a bit wet when I push them into the neck of the bottle. Yes these are the fine vine wine perfect agglomerate corks #9 x 1.75 with Georges metal hand corker. So maybe the corks should be dry of...

IhaveRJS International Merlot and Cab Sav from late 2010 thatI ,my wife and several of our friends are having difficulty extracting corks from the750ml bottles. I have broken twogood quality double handle cork screws ,my wife has had one broken handle,a friend jokingly asked if I had insurance...

Fine sediment. What I was saying was that the colder temps during the clearing phase for these two kits probably caused the fine sediment to be present in the bottles after 6 months or so. The kits where the temps were up during clearing did not produce more sediment in the bottles after 6...

thinking back I have had two red kits where there were solids present in the bottles. I knowthe clearing stage was done during colder weather and it was in the basement at around 55- 60 degrees. Other kits that were set to clear during the warmer summer months did not have the solids in the...

ok guys thanks for the advice. I think I am straight on this. ferment to dry, add sulphite, degass , add the two clearing packets, degass more then back to glass carboy top off and store in room temps 70 - 75 for three weeks untill clear , rack off sediment and back to glass carboy for long term...

ok now I am straight on not being necessary to use sorbate if kit is fermented to dry SG (.998) or less in either a whiteor a redkit with no F pack or sweetener pack. (no additional sugar added after fermentation). But still have questions about adding the fining packets . Before bulk...

I am at day 28 with my first EP kit. It is the Delu Ranch Woodbridge Cab Sav. I am still new to bulk agingand I want to go in that direction with this kit. SG is .996 and would like to procede. Tell me if I am headed in the right direction. First off I would like to get to bottling day three...

Which RJ kits come with factory packed labels for 30 bottles? I know the EP and the Winery series does. Any others?