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I am slowly (very slowly) putting together my kit to start making some fruit wine and I have a couple of questions. I am going to start with some 1 gallon batches and I was lucky enough to be able to freeze some pears from our trees last fall. So my first batch will be pear wine. It is my...

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Thanks all! So I'm not crazy thinking I needed a bucket larger than 1 gallon. Would a 3 gallon bucket be too big in this case? I know about too much air in the secondary but is there the same problem with air in the primary?

I'm new to wine making and I figured since my wife and I like fruit wine so much it's a great place to start. I've done some reading and I am going to start out small with a few different 1 gallon batches. Everything I've read says to use the fruit in a nylon bag and add 1 gallon of water with...