Recent content by Steve Wargo

Instead of dumping it. Try to blend it into table wine. Buy an inexpensive bottle of commercial Merlot and mix a combination that works for you. It will add tannin and knock down the acid. I blended it with Merlot and it turned out to be good drinking wine. I think the acidity of the...

Glad to hear the ideas from other people growing and making wine from these French Hybrid grapes. Everyone I give a bottle to tells me how good the wine was and how different it is compared to other wines they drink.

I've crushed Petite Pearl and Marquette and made wine. The RC212 is good for the Marquette ferment, but must be fed nutrients about 2 days after the start of ferment and maybe a little afterward. The Pinot Noir Red is part of the Marquette grape DNA. The Marquette can be too acidic for some...

Wow it looks great. Plus the wine is not found in any store I know about.

Thanks for the insight. The Daylilies will be in bloom very soon in my area

How many or volumes of daylillies did you use per gallon of water. There are many ditch daylilies growing wild all around my area. I think I would give it a try. I think it would be a unique wine.

I'm not surprised that a wine can be made out of daylilies. As I kid I instinctively picked out and ate the pistils from the daylilies in my grandparent's home/backyard. Just a few. Some tasted sweet. Some didn't which I spit out. I've read where specific daylily variety petals are used in...

A difference in taste can be detected in commercial wines from bottle to bottle. Tasting the same brand, vintage, and grape variety. I've detected it in my own wine when bottling from a large carboy that was cleared and corked for over a year. I now transfer the wine to a bottling carboy, add...

There was some leaf damage on a few grape leaves in a specific area. At first glance no beetles. While turning over leaves to the bottom side, hiding, the arseO beetles. They committed suicide. So far haven't seen any other noticeable damage. Yet.

As you know, Wine Grapes are usually grown from cuttings taken from the original plants (Clones). Growing grapes from seed will not guarantee a plant and grapes similar to the mother plant. You might get away with growing the grapes from Campania grape species clone cuttings if you take care to...

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During warmer weather, I've seen fermentations go fairly quickly. When mine went too quickly (3 days) they were smelling a little like a Zoo.

I'm bad at remembering names.

I've read or heard about wine made from just about anything that you can imagine. Dandylion wine, Hibiscus, Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables, Flowering Shrubs like honeysuckle, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea Garlic. If it isn't poisonous to eat/consume or ferment then I guess you can make wine out of it...

Last Year I found 1 gallon or 4-liter glass jugs on the FB marketplace. I'm not sure if people still can sell jugs there. FB took down my ad I put up about two empty large 1-gallon jugs. FB police Said it violated rules. I didn't call them sexually descriptive jugs or use any incorrect PC...