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What do you folks think about bottling wine in large bottles if the wine is used quickly? Maybe four-litre bottles.

I'm looking for ideas for making something sweeter out of extra apples that can be completed in 2-3 weeks. What do folks recommend?

I have a wine bottle I want to reuse but it has a bit of dried wine inside. I can't get at it with a brush and soaking hasn't dislodged it. Do I have to throw the bottle out or will sanitizing make it safe to use for wine?

I had a client in my office today who makes wine. She says the bottom blew off of a carboy and there were 30 litres of red wine all over the hardwood floor. She was a week from finishing the wine. I have no other details. I've heard of a back window in a car explosing without being touched and...

My house was cool so I put a heat belt on a carboy of Merlot as I wanted to get a bit more fermentation out of it and I left it for about three days. I went to look at it and the heat must have caused the wine to expand as it went up into the air lock. I emptied the air lock and put some more...

I'm making a Harvest Selection 28-day Merlot kit. The instructions call for it to be degassed, stabiliized and cleared in a few days but we'll be on vacation at that time. Can I safely delay this step by 10 days or should I do it two days earlier than the instructions call for?

We carefully sterilize everything that touches our wine, but many people use water directly from the tap. This water is running through pipes. Doesn't that introduce contaminants?

I went about three years without making any wine and had an old Wine Kitz Chardonnay Vin Blanc Sec that I'm finishing up now. It's almost done and I'm just aging it until I bottle it. It doesn't look white, but has an appearance like a blush wine. Could it be because it was old and perhaps past...

I'm making a Chardonnay. I'm near the end and tranferred the wine from a carboy into my primary, then added the kiesesol and clarifier. I stirred the kiesesol well, as directed over three minutes and vigorously. However, when I transferred it back into the carboy (it says to give it another...

I'm finishing a Charadonnay kit. I'm degassing now. The next step is to transfer the wine to a new, clean carboy, add Kiesesol and clarifier then leave it five to 10 more days. Why do I have to transfer the wine to another carboy? It's already in a clean carboy so why not just clarify it in...

One of my bottles I just corked is leaking a couple of drops of wine from around the cork. Advice? I suppose I could just open that bottle and drink it. There is a small amount of cork sticking out of the bottle. Maybe too much head room.

I'm interesting in finding out about making port wines. Is it hard? Is it done from a kit? What do I need to know to make one of these?

I searched and didn't find anything on this. Where can I download backgrounds for creating wine labels?

My name is Wayne. I thought I'd make labels on the computer that say Wines by Wayne. I could make a smaller label and put it below the one from the wine kit. I could also put both the wine's name and my personal label on the same label, but I don't want to be scanning the label that comes...

Hi, I'm new here. This is my first post. My batch is now on Day 47. It was supposed to reach SG of .995 three weeks ago but it seems to have plateaued at 1.00. My house is cool. Will applying heat to the wine bring the SG down? What should I do? It's a Petit Verdot.