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Not sure what this is on the leaves? I'm going to pull the leaf, but I haven't seen this before. Riesling grape did that helps

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My apologies, I thought the same rules applied here as on Hbt. Nothing personal taken. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

Can anyone help on why my post was deleted? Pm is fine... Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

Not sure if it was the water, I bought spring water from the store... I didn't take PH measurements at the time, I just recently bought a PH meter. Some of them were kits, so I added what came with them, as opposed to titrating it to what was needed. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

So I'm wondering if it is not a water issue... Let me explain. In a side by side of every wine there is a distinct crispness that is the same that is borderline harsh. I've recently been listening to a brewing podcast on water. In the podcast John Palmer explains that using spring water in...

No disrespect taken... I fermented in buckets bought from Homebrew stores, for fermentation, cleaned with a mild fragrant free soap and sanitized with Starsan. The mead did take third place last yr.,in a homebrew competition, but she swears the flavor is there... They were aged in glass...

The late harvest reisling is approximately 2 years old, mead about the same. Now the strawberry wine is young approximately 6 months old. I should add that its only our white wines that carry the flavor, Our italian barbera did not show any of the flavors. Would carbonation still be an issue at...

Hey all, First off, I cant thank everyone enough for the wealth of information available here. My fermenting background has mainly been home brewing beer, but I have ventured off into doing a few wines. I need a little help, my wife says our wines have a common flavor in them. We have done a...

I hate to bring this back from the dead, but any updates to how these turned out?

So how long are you supposed to soak the corks before bottling? I thought I read somewhere that you shouldn't...

Ok, so it only 4 bottles total out of the total 30. It being my second wine kit, I did forget to leave the bottles upright for the beginning 2 days... Fermented in June, went through secondary, tertiary and bottled in August...and this has been the first I've noticed which made me think the...

Hey all, so with the drastic temperature changes I've noticed that my corks are leaking by on a few of the bottles (not all). I've shrink wrapped a few, when I noticed these. Do I need to recork? Are the ones I've shrink wrapped ok? Will a touch of stars an the shrink wrapping work ok? N