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I have been pleased using the aio but have been looking into people who have used replacement enolmatic heads to make there own filler. Is there anyone who has made a similar filler and attached to the aio. I like the ability to put the bottle in the filler and let if fill while maybe...

After many kits under my belt looking to finally doing a top shelf cab kit. I am inbetween the cellar craft red mountain, cost around 160 shipped and the rj winery series cab shipped around 125. Any options on what oobvious do,obviously I take cost into consideration so is the red mountain...

Havent been able to find much info but have been tossing the idea around of opening a small niche brew store which would carry few higher end wine kits. Does anyone know what the regulations are for these to sell wine kits, would be online only with a warehouse for local pick up only no...

Now that I have 3 11 g vadai barrels all my kits are going thru them now. I usually make per kit instructions, leaving out sorbate and then into the barrel usually 1 month after clearing. Since the barrels are newer usually in for about 2 month then removed and racked into 2 6 g carboys with...

Q for the pros out there. I have been researching out some small boutique wineries and I am pretty sure a few are making there wines that they sell from juice and also kits, the high end ones. Most of there labels are with the varietal and I know a few they change slightly. If you are say...

I have made kits up till this spring when I have Just finished fermenting 6 buckets. I have purchased a few barrels from vadai a 6 gallon and two 11 gallons which have worked wonders on my kits. I was initially planning on putting 11 gallons of a Chilean wine into a new barrel. My concern now...

So quick follow up I am in the process of running a few US elite smaller scale concentration kits. None are ready for bottling yet but first impressions have been positive. They are no longer carrying their crushed grape packs and I was interested in adding some grape packs to future red kits...

So like most what starts as simple hobby quickly gets out of control. Needless to say after 50 or so kits wanted to try something on a little bigger scale but due to certain constraints not ready to go right to grapes. I have set up account with my company with us elite winery in Cali and...

Have thought about giving small bottles as a gift set for the holidays, as in the set in the following link. Any ideas on the feasibility of getting small bottles like less than 375 and what time of closure to use...

So I know has been mentioned that others have noticed the price of lemon juice has gone up. Some had gotten a deal on amazon for case however I don't even see that deal anymore. Just bought 15 oz at target for 2 bucks which seems high. Anyone have any suggestions where they get best price...

Have seen some mention of peeps trying to reuse the slurry from skeeter pee but wasn't sure if that was from a batch of skeeter made from a wine slurry prior, meaning was going to be third round for the yeasts. I have finally gotten my skeeter going which was from a starter, and has been a...

So I'm giving the pee a go this year without using a prior fermentaion and will be using a starter. have juice mixed up and plan to start starter tomorrow. I will be using 1118 yeast. Have done extensive review of past posts and have gotten few different ways of making starters just wanted to...

So I Know there are random threads on WE kits and reviews just seeing if anyone would wanna throw down there favorite and best WE kits. I myself have only done a few oft the lower end kits including Vitners reserve chianti and Pinot grigio both of which didn't get to age much past 4 months...

little background, I started making kits last Jan. total have made vitners reserve chianti and pinot grigio, both were made to 6g and ended up tasting great, to point all gone now. Have tried several kits from amazon, the vino italiano all were were made to 5g and turned out good as well...

Hey sorry if been answered before but a newbie here and just not just what the smell my wine has started to give off. I am in the clearing stage of a chianti style kit, been in the clearing carboy for about 3 weeks now. After about a week the wine appeared clear and tasted and smelled pretty...