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ok...after ALL of these years of wine making, i finally want to pull the plug and make a red, other than WELCH's concord....looking to you good folks out there to give mr recommendations on a nice merlot kit....most of my experience with kit wines have been WE kits, BUT if i can get a better...

a friend of mine told me the other day about a website where you can create a short, personalize video message from santa, for your little ones... www.portablenorthpole.com ...by answering a series of questions about your child, a video message from santa is generated, and sent to the email addy...

well i don't normally buy a lot of lottery tickets, normally just the 2 dollars a week for a small pool at work, but i think i just might have to make an exception this week....the powerball jackpot is expected to be up over 400 million dollars....i think i may have to take a chance and buy a...

for those that are interested, i just got an email from my lhbs announcing that rj spagnols is releasing a grand cru limited edition california muscat....i know a lot of members here prefer their big reds, but i have to admit, muscat is a wine i have been curious about doing, and now there is an...

well i know to a lot of you, you've already received and started this kit, but to me it is a big deal....lol....after about 2 months of having to wait to be able to get it, yesterday i was finally able to go get my chocolate raspberry port kit....i received the call almost 2 months ago from my...

i have been dealing with the same hair stylist for who knows how many years now, faithfully having her cut my hair, following her from one shop to another because i like the way she cuts my hair and trust her....well anyways, from time to time since i got into wine making, i've taken a couple of...

ok....a little background first...i am almost 42 years old...got married in 2003 to a woman that had 2 boys, 7 and 11, when we met....never had any kids of my own...wife left in 2007, but my oldest stepson has remained a part of the family since...i met my current girlfriend, with her 2 teenage...

:u just an update to those well wishers and those that showed interest in what my gf and i are doing...it is now official....as of this upcoming wednesday, we will be taking in my gf's nephews....they will be living with us, and if the parents are not in "substantial compliance" with the...

the other night my gf and i decided to crack open a bottle of cherry wine we brought home last october from our trip to traverse city....as i took that first sip, i was instantly transported back, and reminded of that trip....all the tastes ans aromas we experienced while there were present...

well for those that might be interested....was in my local "wally world" yesterday, and couldn't help myself as i always do whenever i'm in a store, was looking in the refrigerated juice section....could not believe my eyes....59 oz. (ah yes, i remember when they were a full 1/2 gallon) minute...

my favorite piece of equipment in my collection i think these might be pretty rare nowadays, but this is my favorite carboy in my collection... somebody actually traded this in at my lhbs....picked it up at a great price about 6 years ago....just happened to be looking to pick up...

well, stabilized my berry pom last night....looking pretty good so far.....tomorrow will probably f-pack....have my frozen concentrates ready to go.....julie, it might not necessarily be entirely blueberry pom, but considering 3 gallons of the juice were the bluberry pom while the other 2 were...

ok, i know to some of you this might sound like a stupid question, but given the fact that in all of the batches of wine i have made, i have never used this technique, but....when using frozen concentrates as fpacks for your wine, is there anything in particular you have to do in order to use...

i just found this article online, and found it very interesting, perhaps others will as well.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_wine

cracked open a bottle of the white cranberry peach "quick wine" i started back in february....this was one of the 1st batches i made getting started back with the hobby after a 3 year hiatus....wow is all i can say....apparently i hadn't lost my touch....it actually had the taste similar to a...

ok....here it goes....i have the opportunity to purchase 4 gals of close dated old orchard 100 % juice, 2 bottles of blueberry pomegranate, and 2 bottles of mixed berry, for 2.80 a bottle....if you were in my shoes, would you snatch it up or not???....lol...

was doing some straightening up yesterday of some of my recently used equipment yesterday, putting away some empty carboys and such, and just happened to look at the old price tag on one of my old 5 gallon carboy boxes....when i bought my equipment about 7 years ago, 5 gallon MEXICAN carboys...

well, bottled my first pee a few weeks ago....i did a mixed berry/peach pee.....have to admit, i found it a little thin, but when trying it after backsweetening, i thought it tasted like it would make a good base for sangria....well, on easter we cracked open a bottle, tasted it, and like i...

Just figured i'd start kind of a fun thread. I know most of us have or do do this. When we go to bottle, we have commercial wine bottles we recycle, so just out of curiosity, what are some of the brands wjose labels you have had the hardest time cleaning off your bottles? I would have to say...

Ok, well like I said before, I am not new to wine making, but have been out of the loop for awhile, and I do have experience making an f-pack from juice, but this is the first time I am planning on making one from real fruit. I hope this doesn't sound like a dumb question, but just following a...