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Looking to purchase 100-200 lbs of grapes to make a dry red wine near Yadkinville, NC.

I back sweetened my blueberry/elderberry port and put it on oak. It is very hard to tell how sweet the wine really is at this point so I played it cautious and only back sweetened to 1.015. That seems to be a little light on the sugar, but not sure what the standard is for a fruit port. The...

I have been making wine for several years now and thought about investing in a 5 gallon oak barrel. The more that I read about oak aging, the more I am not sure about the investment. I have read that you need to keep the temp around 55 deg and humidity around 70%. I don't have the ability to...

I made blueberry wine last year with 19 lbs of fruit for a 3 gallon batch. The wine did not have good body and was a lot thinner than I was looking for. The amount of fruit is not an option this year, but I do not want to add so much fruit that it will stall fermentation. I know that local...

I tried a wonderful blackberry wine that was oaked and it add a great light vanilla flavor to it. It also seemed to give it a nice smooth sweetness compared to every other blackberry wine that I've tried. I'm not experienced with oaking, but was thinking about trying oak spirals while aging. Not...

I just picked 30 llbs of carlos variety of scuppernong grapes. Every recipe that I have found recomends making the wine the same as muscadine by fermenting on the skins. This goes against everything that I have ever been told about white wine. Was looking for some advise on what method to use-...

I have been making wine for 3 years now and have become competent with most fruit wines and several juice kits. I have tried my hand at muscadine wine 2 times now since I have access to a large number of grapes, and both were a failure. Both wines were bitter and not what I considered drinkable...

Just picked 20 lbs of Blueberries and decided to make my first Blueberry Wine. Thought that I would ask for any advice on my recipe before I started. 3 Gallon recipe: 20 lbs of Blueberries for wine 4-5 lbs of Blueberries for F-Pac Water: 2 1/2 gallons ? Enough sugar to raise SG to 1.085...

I have been making wine for about 2 1/2 years now and finally got a filter system last fall. I've used it on serveral batches of wine and it seems to work good on some and not so good on others. It is a chaeaper pressurized system that uses a hand pump pressurized vessel to push the wine through...