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In 2010 with a bumper crop of chokecherries I started my wine making ventures. Since I was also defrosting my freezer I decided to use all the old rhurbarb and raspberries up as wine too. So I jumped in all at once - started 10 gallons of chokecherry, 5 gallons of rhubarb, and 5 gallons of...

I'm just following the recipe for the skeeter pee: stabilizing, then a bit later adding the 6C of sugar, then waiting 2 wks before bottling. I needed the carboy! I guess I better start checking my SG from now on.

I'm on my Skeeter Pee #12 and I've found a difference in the pees made on kits with the grape skin packs. Most of my pees have been made off WE kits that don't have the extra grape pack. Those have worked great following the original recipe. But now I'm on my second pee made from a CC kit with...

I'm ready to bottle a carboy of cabernet, and too an old vine zin, I started a year ago from juice from Lodi I bought at my local brew shop. At the last racking- downsizing from 6 gallons to a 5 gallon - I bottled some of both and all who've tried them like them. I don't live where grapes grow...

Our favorite fruit wines so far are red raspberry and chokecherry. I'm awaiting our elderberries to produce. Rhubarb is good too. Haven't liked peach or apple so far, but we prefer reds anyway. They seem weak and need sweetening or something. And going to have to tweak a plum and a pear. I...

just adding sugar Does sugar need to be added as a diluted syrup? Couldn't you just keep stirring the sugar in the wine till diluted, thus no more added water? I've not done this in my wines other than Skeeter Pee. I've got some wines that are close to being bottled (chokecherry, crabapple...

added raisins? We so like the Luna Rossa I don't know if I'd want to mess with it, but if so, I'd cut/grind up the raisins first. And I'm no longer into bagging up fruit - don't like the work of getting it all out of the bag. By the time it's ready to rack into the carboy everything's usually...

I'm on my 6th Luna Rossa Kit and we've drunk them all young. I wish I saved a bottle from the first kit cuz it would be going on a year. From now on, now that I'm developing quite a stash, I'll be saving bottles as well as carboys to age. We did open one the other night with company that was an...

I'm about to start my second Rosso Fortissimo kit and am trying to save most of the already bottled 1st kit, but it's so good each time we try a bottle! The Amarone is very good too, tho it wasn't as great early on, so I'm letting what's left age.

No CC Labels I've done two CC Showcase Kits and no labels. Did Amarone earlier this year and put some aside so they wouldn't be drunk for awhile, and too a Rosso Fortissimo - both excellent, even right away. I'm about to start a second RF. They, along with WE Luna Rossa and Special Edition...

Great Wine I started this kit last February and we enjoyed drinking it right away. It's so good I tracked down more kits and have another started right now. Then when carboy available will start the 3rd kit. It came with labels, so use them when taking a bottle somewhere or gift giving. Still...

Pee on Grape Skin slurries It sounds like some of you are making pees without slurry and just adding a yeast. I'm on my 8th pee and all have been made on red kit slurries and all have been great ... excepting one fizzy and popping corks. It was the only one made on a CC kit with grape skins...

Gamay Nouveau Where's a source for the WE Gamay Nouveau? I want to try this wine. So far everything I've found is for preordering.

Early drinkable WE kits I've made several WE kits now, preferring medium to full bodied reds. Our favorite early drink kit was the limited edition Australian shiraz, and have found and ordered more. The Luna Rossa is our next all time favorite, so I keep making it, and am currently making 3...