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As I was finishing shopping for some last minute gifts today, my wife calls. She asked what the $%&# I was doing in my wine room. She said there's wine all over the floor. Here a bottle of my BlackBerry dragon blood exploded (cork blew out). I decided to open another and it was like...

Decided to do some experimenting with the Welches Farmers pick unfiltered juice. Anyone have any experience with using this? I am doing 2 one gallon batches. One will be the Concord juice (never used Concord before) and the other is the blackberry juice they make. Just interested to see how...

So I came across some free blackberries, well free with the gift of some of my wine... I picked about 18 lbs so far, with more to come. They have been frozen awaiting my time to make some wine. I made BlackBerry dragons blood last year which turned out good. Any suggestions for this year? I...

My wife is always checking Facebook "yard sale sites" and such for good deals on items folks no longer want or need. She came to me the other day and showed me a post which simply said "wine making equipment, moving sale". At first I wasn't really interested but she sent the person a message...

Finally got some time to get some bottling done today. Went and got me a floor corker which works wonderful. Also purchased some heat shrink tops for the bottles. I was only going to use the one the ones i was giving away. I bottled 10 dragon blood, 5 white grape peach, and 5...

I am about to start my first batch of dragons blood, a two gallon batch. I have not used a clearing agent before and with some of the research on here, picked up some super-kleer at the store today. Not until i got home i realized that it is for a 5-6 gallon batch. Is there a way i can use...

The white grape wine (Welch's Niagara White) I started about two months ago fermented dry and cleared nicely after two racking's. I decided to back-sweeten yesterday to prepare to bottle in a week or so. Now I know it's only Welch's wine, but after back-sweetening, I had about 1/2 cup left...

So I recently had access to a large quantity of sunflower petals...So my initial thought was can I make wine from these? Of course I could... Found a recipe by Jack Keller and followed it and have been preparing the must over the last several days. All ingredients were added and last night it...

Very new here as you can see... I have been reading about wine making for months online, books, everything I can get my hands on. I was told to start off with a kit, however I have several supplies already in my home which would come with a kit. I have a 5 gallon carboy, and several 1 gallon...