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Hi all, A couple weeks ago I finally got around to pressing the grapes I had gotten from someone and started to make wine out of them. Primary fermentation went well and it's now in secondary. The juice is pretty light in color, in secondary it's a nice pink color so as soon as the yeast...

I've got several pounds of grapes which I had in my freezer since last fall. I got them out and put them in the fridge in my garage with plans to press them soon. However, it doesn't look like I'll get time to press them for a while, and I don't want them to go bad so I decided to put them...

Recently a post mentioned Boone's Farm and it got me to thinking about this product which is errantly labeled "wine." Now to those who aren't in the know, Boone's Farm is a very cheap product which I was surprised to see sold in local grocery stores (liquor is not allowed to be sold in grocery...

You're not a real wine maker until you've broken your hydrometer. My first was my favorite, a nice triple scale hydrometer with different colored scales which made it easy to read. I had cleaned it and dried it off and dropped it into the plastic tube it came in, when it broke through the...

I'm getting ready to make my first ever port. I've got a gallon of red Concord juice, and I was wondering what yeast makes a good port wine? I was thinking of using either Montrachet (which I really like) or possibly Pasteur Red. The PR tends to foam up a lot but is great for full-bodied...

We've got a storm cellar in which I keep my wine, and last night I noticed that a lot of the labels have been eaten away around the edges. I'm guessing that it's silverfish which keep doing this, though I've never seen any down there. The odd thing is that the bottles of wine laying in...

Tonight I opened a bottle of my dry red Concord wine from 2008 since I wanted to see how well it aged. I poured a glass of it, but the smell and flavor is off. I did some googling on cork taint, which is often characterized by a moldy or musty smell, but this wine doesn't quite smell musty...

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I'm really bummed. I had two 5 gallon batches I'd been bulk aging that I hadn't checked on in a while, and found that the airlocks had gotten low enough that they let air into the carboy. What was 5 gallons of Concord and 5 gallons of Grenache Rosé turned into 10 gallons of turpentine. I...

The FedEx guy dropped off my package, so I'll be starting my Gewurztraminer tonight. I'm excited because this will be the first batch I've started since January. I've been slacking a bit. I also got some champagne corks and wire hoods so eventually I'll be making some sparkling wine. I just...

This is my latest wine I bottled a few days ago. Two gallons of white Niagra wine and a gallon of white grape peach. The Niagra was started in November of last year, and the white grape peach was started in July of last year.

On another thread someone was dealing with refermentation in the bottles, which reminded me of a story. I used to work as a police dispatcher. One evening I received a 911 call of a possible drive-by shooting at an apartment. The caller said that they heard a loud pop and heard glass...

I brought up a bottle of last year's burgundy out of the cellar and had a glass of that with dinner. I think tonight I might have a glass or two from the leftover bottle of the good white Niagra made with D47 yeast that I just bottled. I also brought a bottle of 2008 sweet red Concord which I...

I've never made a fortified wine before, but thought it'd be nice to make some port. From what I understand, you make wine, then just add brandy (or some other alcohol, but usually brandy) which boosts the alcohol content up to around 20%. Sounds fairly easy enough. I read today that if you...

My brother brought down a bottle of what he called "apple pie wine," which was basically apple juice & everlclear with cinnamon red hot candies dissolved into it. It wasn't bad, but ever the purist I decided to make something a little more natural. I came up with an Apple Pie wine that makes...

When my wife & I visited the Williamsburg Winery on our trip to Virginia, one of the wines we sampled was a sweet grape raspberry dessert wine which was quite good. I decided to try to make something similar. This is what I came up with. Batch size: 1 gallon since this was an experiment...

This is the basic recipe I recommend for anyone starting out wanting to make wine. It's the recipe I use whenever I want to make a basic red Concord wine. I love the flavor that the Montrachet yeast gives to the wine. Easy Beginner's Wine This is for a 1 gallon batch, increase all...

This is an awesome wine which I've made a couple of times. It makes a nice, sweet white wine. The wait is totally worth it. The first time I ever used D47 yeast for white wine, I was put off by the odd smell the wine had once fermentation was complete, and even tried splash racking a few...

Hi everyone, I'm an experienced wine maker who just found this forum. I started making wine back in 1998 or so, then kind of fell out of the hobby until I got serious about 5 or 6 years ago. I admit that when I started I didn't know what I was doing, and some of the wine I made turned out...