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Thank you all for the wonderful compliments! Yes, this was made a couple of years ago. We still have 5 bottles left. I drink them sparingly because I don't want to run out! It has aged wonderfully :try We currently have a Cab Sauv, an apple and a green tomato (I'm a little scared of this one...

Thanks everyone!! Yes we designed the labels ourselves - my husband came up with the name... Imagine that ;) Thought it was a great play on words though! We chose Riesling as our first because it's my favorite - hubby wanted to do a Pinot first, but...I won ;) I have a bit of a sweet tooth...

So excited! Our first try at wine making was a success! Our Late Harvest Riesling is beautiful, bottled and tastes FABULOUS! ...Granted, this wine was from a wine kit, but we did it without turning it into vinegar none-the-less! Yay for us :) ...the bottle with the gold shrink is our very first...

I put the k-meta and sorbate in our peach and plum wines tonight... I noticed our pkg. of sorbate said to add 3/4 tsp. per gallon. Just as an FYI, these packets are supplied by our brewer supply company so it's their own printed label on the pkg. of sorbate - so it's not any one specific brand...

Okay, so re-add Campden tabs after fermentation is complete and do this every racking, or every other?? (I've read conflicting answers regarding this...) Also, do I add the potassium sorbate just once after fermentation, or do I also add that continuously throughout clearing (when I rack)...

Thank you all for you replies! I am definitely going to try using an f-pac and sweeten it up a bit to see if I can save it. There is plum flavor to it - just, overall, it is definitely very "alcohol tasting". ...Funny thing is that when I look up plum wines, many people in general seem to...

Hi Bud ~ This is the thread I saw regarding f-packs when I was looking for info on them last week. http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7547 Hope that helps!

...I think I answered my own question regarding stabilization if doing F-pac...you have to stabilize before doing one ;) How long after adding stabilizers do you wait before doing the f-pac though?

Okay, so our plum and peach wines are both done fermenting. My 1st question is: Do we add the potassium sorbate now, or do we wait until we've racked a couple more times so that the wine is clear? (...we keep reading conflicting tips...) My 2nd questions is: We added the campden tablets...

My starting SG 1.090 I guess I'm confused on knowing how much fruit to use...? We referred to 2 recipes (both nearly identical) and both said use 15# per 5 gallons. One was a sheet of recipes that we received with our wine making supplies, from our supplier, and the other was from the...

We racked our plum out of secondary today and of course indulged in a little taste. All I can say is BLECH. Pretty much tastes like the medicine my mom used to force feed me as a child! So anyway, does anyone have any tips on how to improve the flavor? Maybe a f-pack? It also is very dry, so I'm...

Great advice Robie! It will be sitting for 3 more weeks in the carboy and then if it is still cloudy, we'll definitely let it sit longer. One question, I've been reading a lot about "bottle shock". So is it true, that once bottled, we should wait a month to drink as the taste may have changed...

So last night, the hubby and I did our 3rd racking and are now in the "clearing and stabilization" part of our Late Harvest Riesling (Cellar Craft wine kit). We did as all of the veterans of this forum suggested and tasted a bit of the wine. ;) I was AMAZINGLY surprised to see how clear it...

Thank you all for your replies and I apologize for the lack of info I gave! We made 5 gallons of plum must from fresh, ripe wild plums - using a recipe supplied by our wine accessory supply store. Actually, after we did the recipe, it ended up being about 6 gallons. However, after the initial...

Okay, so everything that came with our wine making kit, as well as some online research we did all said to top up with water *as needed*... Soooo, we racked our plum from primary to secondary and fell short, so we topped up with water. Well NOW I'm reading all over this forum to NEVER top up...

Okay, newbie here... I've got plum and peach wines in secondary right now. Hubby and I were talking about f-packs...not sure if we'll need to make them or not for a future racking, but reading up on how to make them "just in case". What is this "k-meta" I'm reading about?? We've got the...

No we didn't ~ all 3 were different. The wine-kit - our Late Harvest Riesling -came with it's own yeast and honestly, I can't recall which kind it was...it may have been one of the ones we used with one of our fruit wines?? (This is why I am now keeping a wine journal - as I seem to have...

Thanks everybody! ...I think I'm already addicted to winemaking! ...Let's just hope the 3 I have "on tap" taste decent enough to consume! I think our next will be a Merlot. If anyone has any great ideas/recipes or even wine-kit picks for a Merlot, I'm all ears!

Currently, we have a 5 gallon fermenter with a loose fitting lid that we are doing our plum wine in...it is fermenting like crazy, you can actually hear it and see it doing it's thing... We also fermented a wine-kit, late harvest riesling in the same fermenter 2 weeks ago - although it didn't...

Hello everyone! My husband and I love wine...all types of wine...probably too much :d So, we figured why not start making it? So, one night we talked about it and a week later we have 3 different batches fermenting! I would say "jumping in with both feet..." might be an understatement! At...