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This has the marketing message that seems to fit this wine...bless google image search Will be taking a bottle of this wine for Thanksgiving dinner and will let you all know what the feedback is! (if they dare to try it)

Hunting around the wine racks.... (what's out vs. what is boxed up in the Wine Cellar aka 'boxes behind the sofa' )... I poured the last 1/4 glass of a VR Merlot that is about 6 months old and getting past the swill stage. Wanted something more, so I again perused what I have on wine racks. A...

While following Al's link about grapes going unsold, and from here to there I stumbled on an articled titled <h1>Wine 101: What does corked wine mean? And, a solution.</font> </h1>http://www.examiner.com/x-9434-Wine-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Wine-101--What-does-corked-wine-mean-And-a-solution this...

Yesterday a lady at work dropped off a "large bag" of garden peas at my desk. When I got home and shelled and blanched them for the freezer, I sat looking at that pile of pods, thinking.... I remember there is a recipe for pea pod wine! So I dug out my CJJ Berry "First Steps in Winemaking"...

After a bit of a lull here on starting new wines, last night I put together a 6 gallon chokecherry batch. First time I've ventured beyond 1 gallon with that particular fruit, but decided after having done 4 singletons of the chokes previously, I was ready for the big time. I used NW's tried and...

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This kit was started Feb 20th, and I just bottled it kit today. Wow, it's tasting very very good. Go ahead and laugh, because I am -- I now know exactly what folks have meant about the lack of body in the "other" (lower priced) kits. !! I have something to compare to now, and there is no...

In my Blackberry Barbera post under Fruit Wines, I had said: My mother actually still has a bottle of Barbera which I had bought back in the mid 1980s - when I moved overseas I had left the contents of the wine and liquor cabinet (such as it was) with her. Bless her heart, she's saved my...

I was having trouble sleeping last night - I think it was the empty primary and empty carboys crying out to be filled... so this morning I finally started a batch with the 2 jars of Blackberry Conserve/Juice that NW had left behind in the Magic Pantry of their friend formerly known as The...

I recall someone commented they did a white grape and peach (juice blend) wine from the Welches frozen concentrates and how good that turned out. at the small grocery store in town they had the Old Orchard 100% white grape juice concentrate on special, but no white grape &amp; peach in the...

After the Pomegranate Blueberry from frozen grocery store concentrate, I turned to a new approach -- using the bottled juice from the grocery store. Found they had the Old Orchard "Premium" Pomegranate Black Currant juice on sale, 2 64oz bottles for $7 instead of nearly $5 or $6 each - so I...

For anyone interested in a recipe using the grocery store frozen-juice concentrates, here's my recent Pomegranate Blueberry -- which tasted pretty good at bottling (haven't tried it since then). Pomegranate/Blueberry MUST 2 - 12 oz Pomegranate Blueberry frozen concentrate (100% juice...

After a good start last winter, things pretty much ground to a halt on the wine front ... Well just my activity really , the wines in progress benefited from my neglect I am sure. I managed to get over the hurdles though and am back into the swing of the home winery. The Pelican winery now has...

Hi all, I made a batch of the Joes Ancient Orange, including the bread yeast like the recipe said - and the whole orange pith peel and all. Trouble is all I had were big thick skinned navel oranges, and man does this stuff taste bitter now. Is there any way to fine this away? Egg whites? Milk...

Being an avid re-use/re-cycle and just general packrat type... as well as a lousy housekeeper .... sometimes little miracles can come from abject neglectfullness! Some while ago, probably a year or year and a half even, we received a bottle of homemade wine. (setting the stage here). Being...

Following the proportions of the Neighborhood Chokecherry recipe posted by Northern Winos, which wine is the inspiration for winemaking in my household by the way (three cheers for the talents and generosity of Northern Winos!!) - here's my conversion of that recipe in a 1 gallon batch...

Bachelor friend and girlfriend of "Hag of the North" (he said that !! not me), have initiated wine experience. Wish to pick all brains - Hi Lorraine! We have just gotten a 1-gal scratch kit (just to start off with, not a lot of room for the big (Car)Boys -- and have jars and jars of grape juice...