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I don't think this is a real problem, but last night when I went to stir my Wine Expert Limited Edition Shiraz/Cab one day after pitching the yeast, the grape skin bag was on the bottom of the primary fermenter. Fermentation had started, and everything looked and smelled normal. Well... almost...

My niece is getting married in March, 2015, and I offered to make a couple batches of wine for the dinner. They haven't set on a menu yet, and it will probably be a while before they do, so I need a couple everything wines - one white and one red. It will be a smallish wedding, so 60 bottles...

I picked this kit up yesterday and just opened it to take a look. Holy smokes does it have a lot of stuff to play with in it! 2 30 gram bags of oak powder, and 3 30 gram bags of American oak cubes. And of course, a bag of grape skins - my first in a kit. I think this will be the big red I was...

Hey all. I'm almost ready to bottle my first kit - a Grand Cru Cabernet. It has been cleared and stabilized for about a month. I know a lot of you recommend waiting longer to bottle, but I am looking at this as an early drinker, knowing it won't be spectacular. I want to free up the carboy for...

Hey again guys! So on Tuesday it will be 14 days since I started my Grand Cru Cabernet, and the instructions say to move to a carboy, stabilize, and clear, provided the SG is 0.998 or lower. My question is what to do if for some reason the SG is not low enough - go ahead and move it to...

Hi all! I've been lurking here for about a week, but this is my first post. I just started my first ever kit - a Grand Cru Cabernet. I had bought my ex-wife a wine making kit about 10 years ago, and when putting away Christmas decorations I found she had left it all in a corner of the attic...