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Sing it like Don Ho! Don’t know that tune? Search for “Tiny Bubbles’ by Don Ho. Jeesh I’m getting older! I’ve been battling a 2022 Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon 6 gal juice batch for 2 years and tonight just caught a ticking carbonation time bomb. Started a juice bucket on Apr 16, 2002. It was...

Hello all, while doodling away waiting for my summer wines to finish aging before bottling, I came across this movie on YouTube ("The World's Finest Winemakers") which follows a consultant winemaker as he makes wines for a few vineyards for California's 2013 vintage. The movie was released last...

Hello all. I have a 1 year old aging 6 gallon carboy of Chianti juice (now wine). This batch of juice has been a problem since day 1 with slow fermentation, stuck fermentation, and slow Malo-Lactic fermentation. It has been 1 year to the day since I began the ferment. The PH has always been...

Tonight, to celebrate this esteemed day ( National Wine Day & the Top Wine Holidays to Note in 2023 - WineCountry.com ) I will be having something Red from Italy (perhaps we'll try a bottle of my 1.5 yr Nebbiolo made from Italian juice-I bet it is still too young) or a purchased Sangiovese based...

Last year I bought some Cabernet Sav. and Malbec grape juice and this year bought more and different varieties, however, I'd like to ask if anyone knows how long (generally) the juice has been in contact with the skins? I know it can't be "0" as there is coloring in the juice and we would...

We’ll, I made another single batch of Tropical Lime (this is a great wine) and for the first time with this kit I have an issue. I followed directions (added a couple ounces of lime juice), and at the end of ferment I noticed a few ‘DNA’ looking strands of white floating things. I racked for...

Hello all, I have just started a FWK Tavola Riesling, and it sits in pre-ferment and the Specific Gravity at the 6 Gal mark was sitting at 1.114 (yes, mixed well. very well). I thought that was too high and added a bit more water to @6.1 gal and the Specific Gravity now sits at 1.110. When I...

Quick Question about aging the Moscato. I am going to make a few cases of WE Moscato for my nieces wedding in mid Sept. Question is: Start it now, let it age until July and then bottle....or should I wait another month and start the kit mid-March or April. I haven't made this kit before so...

On what should be an easy decision, I'm stumped. I would like to have a second fermenter but I am at a loss as to which one, the 7.9 gallons or the 10 gallons? My history of wine making consists of 6-gallon wine kits or 6-gallon juice buckets fermented one after the other into secondary/aging...

Hello all. Label Peelers have a few lugs (36lb crates of grapes) on clearance right now (local pickup only), and I am thinking of being rash and without much forethought getting a lug of California Malbec and a lug of California Petit Syrah and co-fermenting them. The other option being 2 lugs...