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Thanks for answering my questions! Brake cleaner... who knew...? I have a really dumb question now... For the year of the wine, do you note the year the grapes were picked and fermented? Or when you bottle it???

I'm bottling the first batch of wine I've ever made - asian pear. I collected empty wine bottles from pals and am prepping to reuse them. First, getting off the labels. Here's a link to an article, comparing different techniques. I read somewhere (maybe here) water and oxiclean. I soaked...

I started in a plastic bucket for 2-3 weeks, then put it in a glass carboy. The first time I put it in a carboy (roughly 2 mos ago), I put in campden tablets... to answer the question. Is k-meta better than campden?

Hi there, I racked my plum and pear wine recently for the first time (about 2 mos. from starting the wine.) Should I have put in campden tablets? Do I put that in every time I rack? They taste really dry. I'd like the consistency to be more leggy, syrupy and sweeter. How do I get that...

Wow, Julie!!! Your list amazed me!!! I'm a complete greenhorn... Does any one know a good educational website that explains all the fermentation stuff? I really need to read up on it. Thanks... I am completely ignorant. Is there a link for that? (Forum newbie, thanks.) Ohh, just noticed...

Thanks to you both for replying to my questions. Sounds like I'm headed in the right direction, in terms of dryness. The above quote uses some vernacular I'm unfamiliar with... so I need to ask more questions: 1/ The stabilization process occurs no less than 6 mos. and the wine is clear...

Hi folks, TOTAL newbie here!! I used this "basic" recipe to make both plum and pear wine.... I have three 3-gallon carboys in the cellar now. I've racked them all once. My hydrometer went to 1.0 in about 2 weeks. In the racking process, I sampled some of the pear wine. It has quite...

Thanks everyone!

With an overload of fruit from our plum and pear trees, I decided to try and make wine. I'm a complete newbie, but I'm hoping I've found a forum to ask my dumb questions, and become educated. Thanks very much, and I ask for your patience in advance!