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We were wondering if there is a recipe for the Valiant grape. We picked 30 lbs. of grapes of our vine. We are using the steamer/extracter to get the juice. Would like to try and make some wine from the juice.

This is the wine rack that our friend made. It is 4 feet wide by 6 feet high and holds 80 bottles of wine along with 4 carboys. He made it out of black ash.

It seems like we haven't been here forever. Everytime that I would try and log in, I would get a message saying that it was an un-successful log in. Stuff about cookies and masking the IP address. Thought we got banished to the dark side. But, finally got it figured out tonite, only took me...

I used my birthday discount and ordered up the Orchard Breezin Sangria with Seville Orange. Has anyone tried this or have any comments. It just sounded good. This will be our 1st RJ Spagnols kit. Thanks!

We will be doing our 1st bottling tomorrow. It is the Vintner's Reserve Barolo and has been bulk aging in the basement for 3 months. Should we add 1/4 tsp of k-meta to it? I was going to rack it into a fermenter so I can bottle by using a spigot and bottle filler.

We are going to start our Black Currant wine, probably next weekend. The 5 gallon recipe calls for 12#'s of white table sugar. Is there an easy way to dissolve this much at once? Big pot, individual batches? Or just mix it in and stir till it's all dissolved, I'm open for suggestions.

We are going to start the Black Currant wine. The recipe calls for Red Star Premier Cuvee yeast. I purchased Lalvin 71B-1122. They seem to be similar, is it ok to use the Lalvin and not the Red Star?

With the sale going on, we decided to order some of the items on our wish list. Among those was the Vintner's Harvest Black Current fruit base. Ordered up 3 cans. Just to let the resident wine makers knowthat there will be a new wave of questions from me when this shows up and we start our next...

I am sitting here making up a wish list for needed items. What size fermentation bag would a person use on a country wine like strawberry or rasberry. I see they havedifferent sizes and course and fine. What do you recommend? Thanks.

We started this kit on 1-26. Today the SG was 1.002 and we racked it to a carboy. Here is a picture of it. I wish I could have taken a picture of how it smelled because it sure makes the house smell good. Better than baking bread. Hope you can see the carboy in the picture. It's dressed in a new...

We received our 2nd kit today along with some extra accessories. One of which is another primary with a spigot. We put 23 liters of water in it and the water level is approx. 1" below the mark on the fermenter. What does everyone go by? Both of our fermenters come out to about the same level.

Our wine is in the stabilising and clearing stage now and noticed that there is lees all along the inside of the carboy from top to bottom. I'm start ing to wander how do I take care of this problem? Reading through all the old posts last nite, I came across the perfect solution. All I had to do...

We are doing a Vintner's Reserve Barolo Style kit right now, our 1st. After reading posts for the last week, we have decide to order our second kit. We chose the Winexpert Selection Original Series Symphony. Placed the order this evening, can't wait!

Is 77 degrees on the primary too high? We have the top snapped on, we did not put the airlock in. It is a Barolo. Thanks

I got a wine expert vintners reserve Borolo style kit and some equipment for Christmas. We started it up this morning and am excited to see what happens! This site has been very helpful. Thanks to you all for the great hints and tips.