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Hi All, I am planning on doing my first 6 gallon batch from all grapes this spring. I ordered 4 cases Chillean Cabernet Sauvignon and 2 cases Chillean Merlot (108 lbs). I recently did a 2 month Extended Maceration on an Eclipse Zinfandel kit and am excited about the long term potential of that...

Hi all, I'm a newbie to juice buckets. All of my brief experience up to this point has been with 10 wine kits. Over the weekend I picked up two juice buckets (Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot) with the intentions doing MLF in both. My questions are: When should I start MLF? How do you know...

Hi All, I have an Eclipse Merlot ready to be racked out of my barrel. I'd like to degas it one last time with the All in one pump before bottling. Right now the temp is around 64/65. I was thinking of putting a brew belt around the barrel to get the wine up to 70-72. Is this a bad idea for...

Hi All, I started an Eclipse Chardonnay this morning. SG 1.096. I substituted the EC 1118 that the Kit came with for D47. The packet of EC 1118 is 5g. The packet of D47 is 8g. I'm wasn't sure if I should have put the full 8g in. I pitched 6g of D47. Do you think that's enough or should I put...

Hi Everyone, I have an Eclipse Pinot Noir bulk aging in a Carboy waiting to be bottled. It is a little over a year since I piched the yeast. I did not vary from the instructions. I did however have this kit in my 23l Vadai for just under 8 weeks. I tasted the other day, and while it...

Hi Everyone, I'm about to start an Ecilpse Chardonnay Kit. I'm thinking of using a different yeast then what comes with the kit (EC-1118). I might want to try a combination of two different strains ICV-47 and CY3079. This will be the first time in 6 Kits that I'll be tweeking the yeast...

Hi All, I finally got my 23l Vadai medium toast Barrel. I started the prep last night. I followed the instructions and so far so good. No leaks! My break in plan looks like this: Eclipse Merlot (4 weeks) Eclipse Barolo (6-8 weeks) Eclipse Cab (10-12 weeks) Eclipse Pinot (4-6 weeks) I...

Hi all, I have some questions about adding Tannins to my Wine Kits. I currently have three kits in various stages. All are in glass carboys and are waiting to be placed in a 23 liter Vadai medium toast barrel at the end of August. WE Eclipse Pinot Noir: 4 months old WE Eclipse Barolo: 3...

Hi all, I have a new 23l Vadai barrel coming soon. I've read some threads from others about fermenting a Chardonnay Kit in the new barrel before aging reds in it. What are the benefits to the Chardonnay? Would you recommend doing anything differently from the normal Kit instructions...

Hello Everyone, I started my first Wine Kit 12/27/14. It is a WE World Vinyard French Canernet Sauvignon. I followed the instructions exactly as written. I bottled after 2 months. It's now 3 months old. It has a very fruity taste. It's seems pretty astringent. Also it seems very thin, or...

Hello Everyone, I'm new to wine making, but love it already. Thank you all for this great forum. I have already learned a great deal from all of you with this wonderful forum. My beautiful wife will be getting me a 23l Vadai barrel for Fathers Day this year. I have two WE Eclipse Kits...