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Ladies and Gentlemen, greetings and salutations. I have a batch of CC Sterling Californian Chardy on the go which I started on the 3rd of may. it was racked to secondary at just over 1.000 nearly 3 weeks ago. i checked the gravity again today and it is still about 1.000. MAYBE 0.998 with...

so today i checked the SG of my RJS GCI cab sauv in secondary: 0.996 (its day 15 since starting) so i racked into a clean carboy and did all the stabilizing steps. 1. tasted the wine, it seems to have some strange, unpleasant kind chemically sweetish fatty smell going on. not so obvious on...

quick question: my red wine (RJS GCI Oz Cab Sauv) is in secondary currently and has been for a week (after a primary ferment of about 7 days). its been in a reasonably warm environment. Currently there is *very* little activity- no head of any kind and if i stare at it for about 20...

or maybe its just a hope. regarding kit wines, would it be fair to say that a 12L kit would have a better chance of making a really decent white wine than red? as whites may depend less of skins, juice for achieving that really deep red rich body? i ask this cause i have two 12L whites on...

...and some about the old batch! Ok so I measured my SG of my RJS GCI Oz Cab Sauv today as the bubbling is slowing down: SG 1.000 at most (maybe a tiny bit under with meniscus). So i washed my hands, squeezed out the grape skins, removed wood etc and racked to secondary. No great dramas...

Ok so first batch (RJS GCI Oz Cab Sauv) has been bubbling away for 3 days now. At first it had a big head of foam on it, but that seems to have disappeared and now its just fizzing. looks and smells good. SG is now 1.035 down from 1.1 Taste: fizzy! can taste alcohol, still sweet. tastes good...

ok folks. in the spirit of the carpenters mantra (measure twice, cut once) i have been going over all the steps in my head again before getting into my first kit wine (RJS GC International Australian Cabernet). I have a number of questions: 1. Regarding temperature, the instructions...

hi everyone- as i plan to make 100 litres or so of wine from grapes next season i am starting to put together equipment i will need. i have the opportunity to buy a grape crusher very cheap (from a deceased estate). it is painted red, has an electric motor, looks very clean and well...

my LHBS doesn't stock the full range of cellar craft kits. they have some called prestige and some called classique. only trouble is their doesn't seem to be anything called "prestige" on the cellar craft website! is this the same as STERLING only an older name? are they any good? i understand...

my LHBS only stocks limited range of RJS kits. unfortunately they don't seem to have the cellar classic winery series or the en primeur series which i gather are the top end? anyway, RJS make so many different brands and their website doesn't really give much information. i was wondering, out...

Hi everyone- i have been reading this site for a few days and have found it to be a MASSIVE source of great information. aren't forums always better than simple instructive websites?!! Why did i want to get into winemaking? 1) I spent 4 years of my childhood on a vineyard in the south...