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Hello Everyone, I wanted to know the cheapest kits that youve had that shocked you with delight. Please prove the price and supplier too^^ For my pick, I would go with Paklab's (Costco ones): Cabernet, and Orvieto. - They come in two's and usually are around $47. Which means one kit...

Hello Everyone. Okay so Ive been using the same cork since as long I can remember. its Agglomerate Corks 8X1.5 from RJ Ive bottled pretty much everything with these cork. Recently, few customers have been saying that the corks from Ice wine they took were too hard to take out (they...

Hello Wine people! I always try to make things very personal. Some may think labels dont mean anything but I think label is the cherry on top. Ive had some success on occasions (especially with simple design) but when I try to make ones with colored background .... It becomes very...

Hello Everyone, This is the way I have been degassing my wine. Simply mounted a drill onto the shelf and attached the whisker. Its great because I dont have to sit there, holding on to the heavy drill. I was curious to see what you guys use Cheers

Hello Everyone, this is my situation I am making Rj's Ochard breezin. It is a 4 week kit but Im doing it for 6 weeks. I bought sparkolloids from RJ but they dont mention when to put it.., So this is what I do, i do 2 weeks in primary fermentation and then I rack it (then...

Hello Winemakers Ive just got some WE Riesling Ice wine style kits, my question is: can i put 2 kits of the same wine in the one fermenter and ultimately one carboy? Thanks yall

Hello Everyone, I own a enolmatic bottle filler, and because i have been busy with it, the tip of the nozzle has degraded causing it to leak air out. Ultimately not allowing it to fill the bottle. I looked at ABC Cork but their prices are way too much. The whole nozzle costs $50, the...

Hello Wine experts, I was wondering if anyone has used this fermenter? http://www.rjscraftwinemaking.com/index.cfm?method=products.productDrilldown&productid=3b0ab618-c317-b50c-1c31-482b7e022cec&pageID=3cb78027-d125-cda2-3365-2ce5b13a0e76&sortBy=ProductTitle& is it sturdy? Does it...

Hello Everyone, so it happened... I got the Chilean Malbec en primeur from RJS. Fermented for 2 months and did 2 months of bulk aging. When I tasted my wine, it had all the characteristic of cork taint. the cardboard, stinky mold, and the flat taste. Why Me?!? Anyways there are...

Hello everyone, I made an en primeur Australian Shiraz and Italian Amarone from RJ. Its been good 6 months now since bottling. When I opened the bottle, There were a lot of tartrate acid. I did some research and found that I had a choice to do a cold stabilization. Would it be a good...

Hello awesome people. About a month ago. I bought green apple gewurtraminer (orchard breezin from rjs). I did everything on the instruction. After storing it for a week, all of the sudden, there were sediments in the bottle... As i popped the cork, it made a pop sound and bubbles start to rise...

I am a fan of acidity in wine, i think it is a great characteristic of wine. But I am a bigger fan of wines with balance. I find that some wines that are too acidic (basically sour). Does this decrease with bottle aging, is my question. Side note, I do all my wines with kits and usually...

Hello, im a winemaker living in Toronto. I would like to learn from first-hand. It would be awesome to contact a person who has a lot of knowledge/experience in winemaking. Im all about learning. thanks!

Hello all, So I noticed that most of the wine that has finished fermenting has a sour taste to it. And I like it, but some times it overwhelms the flavour. These are my questions, are sour taste and high acidity the same thing? Does acidity balance out as it ages (like tannin)? Is there...

Hello fellow addicts~ Ive joined this forum a while back but i guess my intro has been little overdue. Been a blast making my own wine but still a toddler in the craft. Came here to learn and see what people are making these days =) PS any Torontonians on this forum?

So I have made Green Apple Gewürztraminer from RJS kit. I have followed the instruction carefully and it tasted alright before bottling. After bottling, I put them in my basement. After a week or so, the floor was all wet. The cork popped out and created the mess. Some has leaked out...

Hello Everyone I wanted to make my Cab Sauv off-dry. Its with a 4week kit, and its been 4 weeks (degassed with sorbate) and finally been filtered. Here are the questions What kind of sugar should I use? powered sugar (brown, white?), syrup, honey If I already stabilized it and...

Hello, I want to get the finishing blend (syrup) that comes with the Riesling Icewine Style from RJS (or anything similar to that). I was wondering where I can get this. I will be adding this to my Cab Sauv, I've tried it before and it seem to work. I contacted Rj and they dont sell...

I make a lot of wines and sometimes the wines are spoiled. I heard that you can make balsamic vinegar with red wines. Is there anything that you do? or time would do its magic? When it does become vinegar, can you store it in wine bottle? Do you have to cork it? Please share your...

Hello Everyone, I've always used the floor cork. And at first the corks went in perfectly, but as time went on the bottom of the cork would get chipped off (the top of the cork looks perfectly fine). Would this create a problem of possible cork taint? Ive always used natural corks but...