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How do you like the Gewurz/Riesling? I am about to bottle the Winexpert version and it is tasting pretty good right now? Sorry, but I don't know enough about wines or kits to really help you....

I found a wine bar down the street that always has at least 3 full size garbage bin sized recycling bins full of empties! Score!!! They always have way more of the bottles they sell by the glass, and as luck would have it they had a bunch of those tall reisling/alsace type bottles. Should be...

Wow thanks for the information! I think I'm pulling the trigger on the 16L Premium California Pinot Noir

Just got this kit as well. I am excited to try it!!! Only my second wine so far, but I have a lot of experience with beer so I'm hoping it'll go well.....:fsh

OK thanks again. So if my patience only lasts 4 months before bottling is that ok? I know for beer a cold crash really helps precipitate the yeast out of solution. I guess I'll skip it for the red wines...

OK great then I am ok till bottling. Thanks for the reply! Can I get away without filtering the wine if I age/rack it enough and cold crash it at 4 degrees?

I make a lot of beer from all grains but just tried my first wine kit, a CC Syrah with grape pack. I am extending the aging process and I just got a fridge off Craiglist, so I want to cold clear the wine at 4 Celsius while I'm on vacation this winter. How often do I have to add sulfite in...

I've been making beer for quite a while but am trying out My first wine kit. I am doing a CC syrah, which must be quite similar since syrah is the same grape as Shiraz I've heard. It's still clearing quite A bit at 2 months but it is starting to taste pretty good. Good luck!