Recent content by mrpoland

My eldberry was a big surprise! With the first taste I was not happy with the wine and I thought it was wasted time. Then with every sip the taste was changing. After another glass the wine becomes very interesting. I have a feeling like this is like olives! Lots of people didn’t like them...

hi there! where in Florida you will be located?

Great to hear back from you. So it looks like we are on the same page! Racking does help with degassing. I also agree about oxygen access that’s why I rack around every 3 months. So I think you make 2-3 carboys of wine racking from time to time to time should be enough but if you make more and...

Robie, I agree with you about CO2. When you keep the wine for long time without touching it, it will contain CO2, especially when it is in cooler room. Slow alcohol and MLF fermentation produce CO2 and cool wine dissolves CO2 very well. That’s why I rack the wine from time to time, it realy...

Keeping the wine for a year is not a reason to help with degassing. I do it to let all fermentation go smooth in the cooler basement. It takes so long since I make stronger wine. I only talk based on my experiences and since I never made wine from kit I don’t know about that.

I make wine only from fresh fruit and sometimes flowers as well. Most of the time I make strong wine 14-16% so I keep my wine in the carboy for 8-12 months. I don’t splash my wine and I try to keep away from oxygen as much as I can. Before I bottle my wine I always take a sample in a glass and...

I had to degas one wine in my life and it was only because I left it for a year without touching in glass carboy. Every other wine was fine and I noticed, that racking the wine from time to time is enough to keep it without gas. Usually I rack he wine every 2-3 months to remove the sediments...

My biggest project of this year has begun! I was reading few times about making portwein from fruit. Portwein I mean very strong [18-20%] and sweet as well. Very essential with rich flavor and aroma. Original wine is made from grapes but I will use wild fruit. I saw original recipe and I was...

Cool! It is so strange because on one tree the fruit are quite testy and on the tree just next to not the best with bitter flavor. I picket trees only with the best flavor and I will see. Very easy to pick and the fermentation is great. The fruit were very productive I got lots of juice from it...

I just made my first step with elderberry. I was reading that some people love the wine, some people hate it and some people make it to mix it with other wine to get darker color. I am going to make a sample of 3-4L and then I will see what to think about elderberry wine. My recipe says to...

I think black cherry is a common name. here is a pic it should help to see what I am talking about. At spring time it has white flowers.

Hello wine makers. I found big wild plantation of black cherries they were in such a great condition so I decided to make an experiment and make some wine. I found the recipe. For 10L of wine: 7kg or black cherry 2,4kg of sugar 4,5l water I am making 5l of this wine. I crushed the fruit...

I was thinking about dragon fruit so I look forward for news from you!

hi there! have fun with wine making!

hi Tony, you can find people from old world as well!