Recent content by Dédé Philippe

I've never made wine only from table grapes. But I have used them as part of muscadine wine. I live in Louisiana, we have wild muscadines growing literally all over the place. I personally love a tart muscadine wine, but many of my friends (from the city) find it too potent. So I sometimes make...

I just set a batch of persimmons to ferment. I agree with whoever said that theirs essentially "turned into pudding." I put double the amount of pectic enzyme, still had globs of "jam" form almost immediately.

Hey y'all. I've made muscadine wine many times, but tried persimmon wine for the first time this weekend. It did NOT go well, for reasons that are unclear to me. I had been gathering and freezing wild persimmons for the past month. They were VERY ripe, so ripe that they would crush if you...