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Looks like a great help to us home brewers, thanks!

Yes please. :)

Olusteebus - what do you use for adhesive when you use regular paper?

Will do! We will use whatever comes in the kit next time. :)

They're not commercial, we just label the bottles we give to friends. They're off the shelf self-adhesive (Avery I think) from Staples. They've done this in our wine fridge and cellar (humidity < or = 60%).

Happy to report that after aging, our Malbec has turned out excellent. We recently finished and bottled a Cab, and initial tasting was similar - a little sweet and not a lot of body. I guess that's just how the wine kits start out before aging.

We've found that our labels get wrinkly after a while in the wine fridge. Does anyone know the cause or have tips to prevent this?

Looks like the consensus is that we took the skins out too soon. Darn it - we mis-interpreted the instructions where they said "...for maximum color extraction, add directly into the primary fermenter..." to mean they were only for added to enhance the wine color. The SG was 1.000 at the...

We completed our first wine kit, a Grand Cru International Chile Malbec Style. Seems like everything went as planned, but when we bottled it on 9/15/14, we tasted the leftovers, and felt it was a bit sweet for a Malbec, with minimal body. We only left the skins in the primary fermenter for...