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Hello all my old friends and my new ones. I finaly had some time to figure out how to get on the forum, change passwords and everything and am very glad to be back in touch with my fellow winemakers. I live in Wharton NJ and have been making wine for about 6 years in between other actvities in...

Hello All, After a long break from winemaking due to holidays and other life insanity I finally started my cc classic cream sherry and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this kit. Smells great. Not sure I did the yeast rehydrate properly but there is some bubbling already. I think...

Hello everyone Wade has kindly offered to post some pics of my wine making space. Included are my first attempts at label making. I am humbled by some of your spaces but I am making progress. BTW yes I have nothing going right now. I bottled 2 batches last week and waited until Thanksgiving...

Hello All, I absolutely love Port Wine Chedder dip and would love to make my own. Does anyone have a good recipe they would be willing to share? Thank you

Hello All, I have introduced a friend to wine making which is great for many reasons including having someone help with heavy lifting . I am really enjoying teaching her the steps and process and we are about to bottle the first batch that she has helped my with from start to fininsh. I have...

Hello all, I am finally starting a limited edition kit that I have been sitting on for more than a year, it is the MM outback shiraz. I was just pouring the juice bag into my primary fermentor and I ended up with a large mass off congealed grapes. I was able to clear the clog and get the rest...

Hello all, Im am interested in making a Muscat wine and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion. I sort of have a funny reason for this interest. My daughter and I just adopted two orange tabbykittens and my daughter named one Marbles and I was trying to come up with another "M" name to go...

Hello all, Hope you are all enjoying Spring. It was a lovely day in New Jersey today Back in the end of March a began a RJ Argentinean Torrents that I got during one of Georges Year end special orders I think a year and half ago. The yeast date was good and fermentation started on time...

Hello all, It has been awhile since my last post but I have been reading all the posts and I have always been amazed by all of your labels ...time for me to jump in and start making my own instead of buying them from George. So naturally I am looking for some newbie advice. I have read a lot...

Hello everyone, I have been checking the forum sporadically over the summer but I am happy to saymy winery is back in production. My only place to make wine is my kitchen and the NJ summers make it too hot in my kitchen to make wine so I stop for the summer and enjoy the fruits of my labor...

I think we have done this before but I have not seen anything recently. I was wondering where people are from. I would love to know if someone lives somewhat nearby to swap wines and support one another. I live in Wharton, NJ which is in Morris County

Hello all, I have been working on my MM Outback Shiraz with the ALL Grape Pack and transfered to carboy today as my SG was low enough. When it was still in the primary I noticed the level of wine was much higher than the 6 gal mark so when I transfered to the carboy ran out of room. I still...

I just started my MM megliolo Old Vine Zin with the All Grape pack. This is my first grape pack and it will be interesting to see how it progresses. I did opt to use the strainer bag from a local wine show to hold the grapes and had a little difficulty transfering the grapes to that bag. I ended...

Hello All my wine making friends. I know it has been a while since my last post but I have been lurking a bit. Life has been a little hairy. I have been pretty consistently making wines and my "cellar" now has about 150 bottles in it. Most recently I bottled a Gewurtz and I just moved WE Trio...

Hello FV friends, I have a coworker who has become my wine taster. I give him a bottle of one of my wines, he tries it and gives mea honest opinion. Wewere talking today and he stated he has found my wine to be better after being open a few days. He actually will open a bottle and not drink any...

Hello all, As I am cranking out several kits recently, I have been frustrated by my inability to stay organized with my limited room. I generally make wine in my kitchen but need to store my supplies in the basement which means a lot of running around finding stuff. I have been thinking about...

I have a question about my MM sangiovese toscano that I got on the mix and match special. It is the most expensive kit I have had and I do not want to screw it up. I started this last Sat and the fermentation has been very active from day one. I do not recall taking the intial SG measurements...

Hello all. I have bugged George once already on this one so now I am bringingmy problem to the forum. I have an IM Green apple reisling that will not clear. the SG was in range when I went to clarify it lastweekand I checked it but am questioning my hydrometer, I bought a new one, yesterday...

Happy Holidays to all. Well I opened one of my Chocolate raspberry ports on Christmas and was pleased with the result as were my guests. It has been in the bottle for just shy of 2 months and had a very smooth taste with the chocolate and raspberry coming through nicely. Both flavors were there...

Hello all, Yes I am still be obsessive about my chocolate/rasberry port. It has been sitting in my carboy for a couple of weeks now and could be bottled any time. I was just wondering if you guys bulk aged this for awhile in the carboy or do you just get it into the bottles. Then how long to...