Recent content by McParadigm

No, no, no. They were in carboys because they were still clearing. I'm just planning ahead is all.

OK. Thanks. The wife and I end up going through about 3 bottles a week between us, most of the time, so for all I know I'll get far enough ahead that some of these bottles sit for two years or more. I'm hoping that the volume of easily available wine will help encourage some increase in bad...

How long does the time between bottling and consumption have to be before I would need to start answering these questions? I really don't know yet how long it will take me to go through what I make, so I'm just trying to be a bit proactive in my learning.

I'm still in the earliest days of this game but I've got a Chard and a Zinfandel/Shiraz from kits in the carboys, and an Italian Barolo just starting. The thing is a lot of my wine consumption is still from purchased wines, so some of what I make is going to end up sitting on a shelf for six...

Alright, thank you. Is this approach, do you think, the best way to get started with wine making?

I'm looking into getting started on this kind of thing, and I was wondering...if I get a 3 gallon starter kit, will I be able to get the 6 gallon wine kits and split them into two separate batches, or are they not really packaged/designed to be split up? I ask because I'd like to start...