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  1. J

    Advice please for this vine

    I bought this vine in may and plated it here in the 1200 ft low desert of az. It was so bare and sickly looking but once I got it in the ground and fed it some good organic fertilizer it has really greened up nicely. I have this new shoot thats grown like a rocket in the last month or so, not...
  2. J

    Looking for fresh wine grapes in Arizona

    Thats funny, the same day you wrote this reply I was up at a shop called hops and tannins in anthem, az, and it was the last day to place an order for grapes from California. I did not place the order, even though the 5.5 gal must was only 45 bux, as the vineyard was unidentified and the must...
  3. J

    1 gallon wine recipe with alexanders?

    Northern brewer, good prices, shipping is affordable, and fast! I am not affiliated nor do I work for them, just my experience...
  4. J

    Looking for fresh wine grapes in Arizona

    Hello all, looking for a source for picking or fresh picked wine grapes in arizona. I saw an old ad in winemakermag, but the phone # is disconnected now. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
  5. J

    1 gallon wine recipe with alexanders?

    You got that right! I got cranberry and apple going now as well, and hope to find fresh wine grapes from someone in arizona with a vineyard thats willing to sell some.
  6. J

    1 gallon wine recipe with alexanders?

    re Hey there, yes they are doing ok but I did a muscato and think I fermented them too warm, resulting in too fast! about 4 or 5 days and my closet is at about 78 degrees, (its summertime in arizona and the ac bill will skyrocket the cooler I go), sg at 1080, but the wine is strong and a bit...
  7. J

    How would you accomplish this formula?

    Re Thank you all for the info, it seems like a cold stabilize and sterile filter would do the trick, and for a home vintner and winemaker, I guess that means a late harvest grape to start with (high brix), fermenting to desired sg, a fridge for a few weeks and then a sterile filtration.
  8. J

    Needing advice on a freezer and refrigerator contrller

    I am looking to turn my fridge into a fermenting space and wine storage unit, and the freezer set at a bit higher temp to stabilize. It is a top freezer bottom fridge setup and was wondering if there is a controller out there that can control both. I want my fridge at about 60 and my freezer at...
  9. J

    How would you accomplish this formula?

    Ok, I had a nice moscato a bit on the sweet side but good. Its stated on the bottle the brix at harvest is 29.2 , finished alcohol was 12.5% with 12.0 brix residual. I am wondering, normally an sg like this would be high alcohol, the winemaker must have stopped fermentation when the sg was...
  10. J

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    24 hours later no bubbles, still waiting. Did a yeast starter today as well too by warm water and sugar till yeast bubbled. Pure cranberry juice is high in acid. Repeated tests and dilutions brought it from 14 ml of hydroxide solution down to 9 ish, the 90's! Good enough I suppose! May buy...
  11. J

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    Thanks for the tips, I guess the ta test would tell me a bit. I planned on a gallon with the 2 32 oz bottles, just an experiment really. Ive heard good things about apple cran wine but not sure if people ferment them together.
  12. J

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    re wont it be too tart or acidic? I have a gallon of pure apple juice as well I thought about mixing with the cran juice before fermenting. Any thoughts? Ratios? I was thinking 32 oz cranberry plus a gallon of pure apple juice, maybe some white raisins and cinnamon stick.
  13. J

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    Hey all, I bought 2 32 oz bottles of lakewood 100 percent cranberry juice , it containes no additives or presevatives, and is not from concentrate. It is low on sugar (8 gm per serving) so I know I will need to add sugar. Im figuring one 32 oz bottle plus one gallon of water will do, plus sugar...
  14. J

    1 gallon wine recipe with alexanders?

    Awesome! Thanks for the comments! I found a one gallon recipe it calls for 1/2 a can of alexanders, so im going to do 2 and experiment. Not sure if Im gonna use bentonite in the beginning tho.
  15. J

    1 gallon wine recipe with alexanders?

    re Thank you Julie! I have read some of the tutorials and alot of reading online and have come close to a recipe / instructions to make one gallon of wine with alexanders juice. I only want to make one gallon batches for now so that if I screw up, its just a few bottles of wine, and I really...
  16. J

    1 gallon wine recipe with alexanders?

    Hello, I am new to the forum and new to winemaking. I want to make a gallon of wine with alexanders chardonnay and know I will need a fruit wine type kit to get started, as I see it has all the additives. I dont know how much juice to use w/water, how much sugar to add, additives, etc, I am...
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