Recent content by Whispermatthes

I am a beginner, this was the first year I made more then a few bottles. I made about 150 bottles of peach,plum and cherry wine. I choose those fruits because they were plentiful and free or very inexpensive. I paid .75 cents a pound for two varieties of cherries (and I love them) and got over a...

Are you planning to distill this wine? I am looking for a recipe to distill.

I was thinking of trying this myself, so I'll be following to see how it goes. Best wishes!

I added the potassium sorbate at bottling and Camden tablets in the last racking. I had an experience with the gas build up in my royal Ann cherry wine this summer and the first bottle I opened exploded like champagne but then I got a tip to chill the bottles in the freezer before opening and...

Peeling peaches It just didn't occur to me to leave the skins on them, I will try it that way next time.

I have two peach trees in my backyard and had a good sized harvest this year of about four boxes though the peaches were small. I cut and peeled them and put some in the freezer and made a four gallon batch of wine with about ten pounds of fruit. I sweetened with sugar to an SG of 1.095 and...