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tannin Hey. How much tannin riche do you use for a 6 gallon batch. It is a bit expensive

Hi. I am about to make this wine and it is the first of the fruit wine/mist kits I have made. Want to make an easy drinking wine for summer. I want to bring ABV up to 11-12 percent if possible. I am wondering best way to do this. I have added some sugar before and I have heard some add some...

Hi. I wanted some advice. I have an Amarone kit in bulk aging and added just one half of an oak spiral one week ago. It is french oak spiral. I tasted it after just one week, and it tastes very oaky to me, almost too much. I have heard to leave them in 3-6 weeks and some people even use 2...

where where did you buy them at. How about a link or at least the store. Is this with shipping or not

Ok, this is my take on it. I am by no means an expert at all, but I have done a couple of Apple wines. I had some horrible smell from it fermenting, I have heard it called Rhino farts. I was worried, but just added some extra nutrient and aerated it quite a bit. That is all I did. I kind of...

Hi Joe Joe, are you using lime zest for the torrentes. I am getting ready to start a pinot grigio. Never did one before. I used grapefruit zest in a riesling per your suggestion and turned out great. Any suggestions on a pinot grigio. Thinking about adding golden raisins and then some sort...

Im in I want to throw my hat in the ring. I have been eyeing one for a while. want to win.

Joe I agree. I love the kits to play around with, but I am worried that we may not be able to get any more. In looking at amazon lately, the kits are not available and not sure if they are being restocked. All of them are not available right now. I hope that they come back, but not sure...

I had heard that they were discontinuing them and possibly replacing with something else. I agree that they are fun to play around with. I made 2 pretty decent wines from them, a decent Barolo, still aging and Chardonnay. I wanted to get the Barolo again to try some things and I cant get it...

thanks Joe Thanks Joe for keeping this thread up. I have learned so much and made my wines better. I have a few questions if you will. First, I am currently doing a lower end Chateau Classico Amarone kit. I started the primary about 4 days ago. I have added oak and raisins to primary. I...

how much sugar how much sugar do i use if i chaptalize and when to add

Thanks I was definitely thinking about some oak and raisins in the secondary. I think with the initial SG, it should come in around 13% at this point.

Hi. I have a lower end Chateau Classico Amarone kit I just started. I want to try to make it better and asking for suggestions. I may add some tannin and definitely some oak when aging. I am thinking of Chaptalizing as some Amarone kits suggest. I was wondering if I do, how much sugar...

I like that idea, have to see if I can find any. Thanks for the idea.

This is what I am leaning towards now I guess. I had a problem when I added raisins to secondary for my Barolo kit. I put it in a 5 gallon carboy and made the kit to 5 gallons. It ended up foaming over quite a bit and I had trouble getting it to stop, made a big mess. Have you found any...