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After contacting one of the sellers on Amazon of the Chinese stainless steel bench corker, they told me there were not designed for use with synthetic corks, only wood corks, so that is end of that. I can see that trying to push a synthetic cork through a tapered metal guide or tube with a 12...

Thanks for all the responses. I noticed when you go to buy the 1000 pack of Normacorc 900 Selects on Amazon.ca, the supplier, Midwest Supplies, notes that "Note: We recommend using the Gilda Single lever corker with these corks because while some Portuguese or Italian floor corkers may work...

I find this thread interesting in that I am going through the same thing myself - i.e. my Portuguese floor corker with a 4 jaw plastic jaw system is doing the same thing, i.e. putting a crease in synthetic corks that causes the bottled to leak if you put them on their side. It appears that the...

We have made many batches of Rhubarb wine and they have all cleared to a sparkling clear wine, but certain steps were required, some already mentioned. Pectic enzyme and bentonite clay in fermentation pail. After secondary fermentation, thoroughly degassed using plastic stirring rod on drill, or...

Yes, would like to hear from Salcoco (salcoco) or anyone else, any comments or suggestions welcome, two part, one what is happening with this Mosti Mondiale kit, and second, what should try or do with this kit now?

I liked the idea when making fruit wine or for that matter, wine kits with grapeskins and oak chips, to use a large strainer bag in the fermentation pail, that overlapped the top edges of the pail, and then have all the ingredients floating in there loose and able to have full contact, etc. It...

Good morning, after 4 months of bulk storage in a plastic carboy, I noticed my MM Amorosso kit has a strange lighter colour to it, and a circular deposit on the inside shoulder of the carboy about halfway up. There appears to be some small white deposits floating at the top. It smelled...

Agree, the negative reviews have some validity to them as this book is not a typical home fruit winemaker recipe book that people are looking for, it is geared to the small commercial fruit winery. The author, Dominic Rivard, is a commercial fruit wine consultant, worldwide, and is very...

Best fruit winemaking book I have read, available on Amazon. It is based on small scale commercial fruit wine production, but covers everything the home fruit winemaker needs to know.