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Three years ago my wife and I sold our home. Shortly after we bought a new home with significantly more space. In the home there was a little hobby room or workshop. My goal was to covert this space into a wine making area. I have recently completed all of the updates and thought I would...

Last June/July I started a batch of blueberry wine. At this time I am done and to the point of backsweetening and bottling. My issue is trying to come up with a range to target for residual sugar when backsweetening. I did bench trials of 1% to 3% residual sugar, but it really didn't seem to...

Hello Everyone, I have enough mangos to make a 5 gallon batch of wine. The mangos end up making a pretty light wine, so I was going to add some white grape concentrate to the recipe. My goal was a TA around .7 and add enough sugar to get the alcohol level up to 11%. However, this time I...

Last year I made a batch of Mango wine and it turned out excellent. However I used the whole fruit. I cut the mango into chunks and put it into my primary fermentor in a nylon sac. There was a lot of "slimy" sediment. Needless to say everything worked out great and the wine is excellent...

Hello Everyone, Last year I made a 6 gallon batch of cranberry wine. I bought 18 lbs of frozen cranberries for this wine and chopped them up using my wife's pampered chef chopper. It took a long time to chop-up all of the cranberries. I don't want to do want to chop these again. This...

My local Wal-Mart has 64oz bottles of Welchs Concord Black Cherry juice for $2.97 per bottle. I have a bunch of coupons for $1.00 off each 64oz bottle. I was thinking about using this juice for a wine making base/must. Does anyone have any experience with this specific juice for...