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Thanks for the input all! I guess I'll let it sit. If it's still too concentrated in 6 months or so I'll add water to the bottles then. Somehow mixing water in while decanting takes some of the romance out of corking a bottle of wine. If this thread is still around at that point I'll give you...

Definitely flying my newbie flag on this one, lol. I did follow the rest of the instructions exactly, and did add extra K-meta. It does seem like dumping everything back into a carboy would oxidize the wine. I was actually thinking of leaving the wine in the bottle, but pouring out the right...

Hi all, I finally bottled my first wine a couple of weeks ago (the Estate Yamhill Pinot). Thinking that following the instructions and making a full 6 gallons would make for a thin pinot, I foolishly made it at only ~5.5 gallons. The resulting wine has so much acid and general "flavor" that it...

Hey all thought I'd let you all know how this kit is coming along since it's a new one. I just racked my limited edition tempranillo/cab into a carboy for bulk aging. It looks like this kit will make a great wine. It has more tempranillo character than cab character. It seems to have good...

An update... When the SG hit 1.040 I added 96Oz of elderberry concentrate (and no water). Interestingly, this had no effect on the SG. I also added some sugar to bring the SG up to 1.056. I also added some yeast nutrient hoping to make sure the wine didn't end up too sweet if the yeast quit...

Hello to all here at finevinewines' forum. I just started making wine last month and I've enjoyed reading the posts here. I've got a Yamhill Pinot Noir and an Italian Pinot Grigio in bulk aging (and tasting pretty good considering their age :). I decided to experiment with half of my next...