I recently made a Carmenere from a kit and it has a very nice full body to it, even better than a normal $15 bottle you could buy in a store. The kit came with grape skins which I assume is what gave it such great body. I have done some looking and it is difficult to buy just grape skins without...
Bottled:
6 gallons of Carmenere (Cellar Classic) - Turned out well, very full body
6 gallons of Strawberry Riesling (Orchard Breezin) - I added Alexander's muscat concentrate to increase alcohol % from 7% to 11%, it has a nice flavor and I like it but there is a lot of sugar. I recommend only...
I think it is a lot easier to be patient after you have been doing wine making for a while because you have plenty of your wine to drink while you are waiting for the wine to age. I bottled my first batch within the first 6 weeks of starting fermentation but with each new batch I am more and...
I am relatively new to wine making. I am working on my seventh batch of wine, so I have a rough idea of what I am doing but not even close to being an expert.
I decided to experiment and try to create a sangria type white wine. I used Alexander's Muscat concentrate and several fruit juices...