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I have bottled wine early thinking its "clear" only to come back several months later to enjoy a bottle and WTF there is sediment in the bottom of the bottle. It looks bad when trying to gift a bottle or enjoying with a friend. I rack a minimum of 3 times and pretty much follow what was said...

I have slowly amped up production from 9 gal in winter 2010-11 to 45gal this past winter. I dont see myself making much more than this in 1 year. I can only drink so much and still function. And I give plenty away also

Jimmyjames that looks awesome. It is on my short list to do this summer when the mint is ready from the herb garden.

I entered a bottle in a local competition. It finished 3rd overall out of 150+. My grape did not do so well. I did not use all the lemon and used another bag of frozen fruit.

welcome to WMT

cleaning bottles is easy Arne. Getting stubborn labels off is the worst job ever.

u can still throw them in

Terry is right on with the amount of fruit per gal. Some fruits like strawberry I have gone to 10 lbs. per gal. An F-pack or concentrates will only help. And Backsweetening is to your liking. With most fruit wines I find it a must but taste as you go and dont over do it.

Started it today. Recipe as follows should be about 1 gal. + 8 grapefruit - fruit only no white part of the peel the zest of 4 grapefruit about 4 tsps. about 1.5 lbs of sugar or s.g. 1.080-1.090 (8 hrs after starting I am at 1.084) 3/4 gal of warm water 1/4 tsp tannin 1/2 tsp yeast energizer...

novalou I always press the he-- out of the bag but for some reason the 2 wise elders I sometimes seek out for advise both told me when doing pears do not squeeze the bag. "to much starch will NEVER clear" pull the bag allow to drip into another vessel and then dump back in the juice and...

someone out there has done this one. I am only doing 1 gallon. I have 10 large grapefruits. Going to peel and take the fruit put into bag. Dont want any of the white pithy stuff. Thiking about adding some of the Zest from about 3-4 of them. Sugar to S.G. of 1.080-1.090 and water to 1 gal...

PolarHug I use 6-7 lbs. It looks really good at about 3 months old. Clearing nicely. Taste is weak but ok. If doing over I maybe would of used 10lbs. One thing I was told was not to press the bag of fruit very much as this would bring in to much starch and it would never clear. I did not...

Thanks all. I am following the directions on this one. I wouldnt even have it if I hadnt won it as I have already made to much fruit wine this last fall and winter according to my other half. I dont want to screw it up I can do that with the fruit in the garden.

I live by Madison WI and last fall I went to a small u-pick vineyard that sells grapes to area winemakers. They had like 12 different varities and the more lbs you bought the cheaper they became. I bought over 50 lbs. I thought I got a great deal. mitchell-vineyard.com

Some friends of mine got me to go to their winemakers club last nite. They are trying to get me to join. I did. $12 why not. Anyway they have a raffle at their meeting I bought a couple tickets and won a Wine Expert White Zinfandal kit. 6 gal. Any suggestions as I have never done a kit...