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Looking for some input on a label that I want to add to 90 bottles that we just made. I have the Avery Design Pro software and I am familiar with the Avery 5168 shipping labels that have been recommended on this forum and elsewhere. I was hoping to make my label smaller and just include a...

Have 3 carboys to bottle this weekend and all 3 are topped off with marbles. Just wondering if the optimal way to do it is to siphon wine into a clean and sanitized carboy without the marbles and then bottle each one immediately. Each carboy has been racked once before. There should be little if...

About to do the final step of our Mosti Mondiale Barolo bucket and I just need clarification on these steps. Here are the instructions for Phase 3: After 7-10 days, (Day 16-24) your wine should be clear. If your wine is not completely clear, leave it alone for a few extra days. Do not bottle...

I asked similar question regarding my grape pack from a Malbec kit from RJ Spagnols. The forum offered me different advice as did the store that I bought it from. Finally called RJ Spagnols and they clarified the instructions in that you just squeeze the "sanitized sock" until all of the juice...

dishwasher bottom racks work quite well if you don't want to get a bottle tree. Friend just got rid of his dishwasher and we ripped out the top shelf to use as an improvised bottle rack. Works quite well

Can anyone tell me what the easiest way is to get 12 different pictures of bride and groom on stickers to put on bottles of wine. Looking to put picture on bottle with a tiny text of location where picture was taken. Thanks for any help

Currently making a kit of Barolo from Mosti Mondiale. We did Phase 2 tonight. SG< .996 and racked it into fermentation pail, degassed it w/spoon, added metabisulfite, stirred, added siligel, stirred, added liquigel, stirred. Siphoned back into carboy, degassed a bit more and finished it off...

yes he bought juice buckets

I understand that the longer we wait the better it will taste, however, I was under the impression that the juice method that he used must have required longer fermentation times and extra rackings because it wasn't a kit and something is done to the kit juice that makes it ready quicker than...

In the process of completing a 6 week kit and my uncle was wondering how it is ready in 6 weeks. He previously made his first batch of wine, a Pinot and a Chianti from refrigerated juice and it took him months and multiple racks to be ready. What makes kits ready so fast? I couldn't think of a...

Thanks! Went today and got the universal carboy top attachment and degassed the rest of the CO2 in the carboy. Didn't have so much room left in the carboy because yesterday we topped it up so it only required a few pumps to create vacuum. For the next 2 kits that we have to stabilize and clear...

We degassed one of our kits yesterday with a drill mounted "degasser wand" but we didn't have the attachment top to put on top of carboy to attach vacuvin and pump residual CO2 out. We followed rest of transfer steps for the kit after degas. Can I goto the store and get that adapter for the...

Thanks for the quick replies. I'm glad we went with our "read."

We are making a RJ Spagnols Malbec kit and it says that Stabilizing and Clearing step begins at Day 28 (approx) at SG 1.00 or lower. Was always told to go by the SG and not the days listed...On Day 14 (today) we measured the SG and it was below 1.00 so we went ahead and began the steps Hope we...

After I have cleaned my wine bottles with BBrite and let them dry, I am just wondering if I can get away with not buying the sulfiter and either turning a wine bottle upside down and spraying sulfite solution into it or keeping wine bottle upright and spraying down. If I can, do I put it on...

One more question as I see the topic of bulk ageing brought up frequently Is it ok if we just follow the directions and bottle when the instructions tell us? We have every intention of ageing our wines for the appropriate amount of time for each kit. Will "newbie" wine-makers notice a difference...

First time wine-maker My 2 friends and I just started our first ever 3 kits this Friday. Primary fermentation steps all went smoothly and now we’re getting around to the 2nd phase for all 3. I have included the 3 kits that we bought below. Here are some questions that I have come up with to...