Recent content by Montane73

Thanks for the advice. I always leave my wines upright for several days, sometimes up to a week,

Good point, I often forget to treat the corks, doesn't seem to affect kit wines. I'll be sure to do that from now on and "sterilize" the wine every time before bottling.

I made a 2 gallon batch of wine from cherries grown in a friend's backyard. I froze the cherries for 2 months before using. The recipe I followed never called for K_Meta or Campden tablets or K-Sorbate. I used a Montrachet yeast. Where I went wrong I think is that it was a dry wine recipe but...

A few winters ago I tried a few mod's to the original recipe. I didn't use a wine must starter from a white wine, I just followed the recipe and used new yeast. I also substituted one third of the volume of lemon juice concentrate for lime juice concentrate. I used less sugar for back...