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I have 1gallon of a country wine in a demijohn. It had fermented dry so at the end of January it was sulphited, racked, degassed and sorbated with 1/2 tsp. After this the wine would be stored for a couple of months before tasting and back-sweetening if needed. So, a few days after adding...

Greetings all, I have a question about whether I’ve racked off the fine lees too early and how to correct it. I’ve recently made a plum wine, the SG was 1.070 and had fermented to 0.998 in about 3 days, at which point it was racked off the gross lees. A few days after that it was down to...

Greetings everyone! Hi I'm new here - living in Sussex in the UK where I plan to grow some grape vines in my garden. I wanted to document the coming years in a thread for posterity, advice, gentle critique, lessons learned - etc. This thread will effectively become my journal and maybe some...

Greetings everyone, pleased to join this excellent resource and thank-you for having me. I live in Sussex in the south east of the UK - we are surrounded by vineyards here. So I thought, I’ll put some vines in the garden! Hoping to document my grape growing and wine making adventures (mishaps)...