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Hi Everyone, I've been out of the game for a while now. Haven't made a kit in about 1.5 years. Prior to that, I had been making wine from kits for about 7 years and have made dozens of kits. I found RJS kits were better than WE kits generally speaking. I found WE kits produced the "kit taste"...

Hi Everyone, Just about to start the toasted caramel dessert wine from RJS. Is EC-1118 a good yeast for this, or will I get much better results with something else? Thanks!

I started out making Winexpert kits in 2014, but have only made RJS kits for the past 3 years or so. I was looking at Winexpert kits today, and noticed they have totally rebranded their kits, with the "private reserve" being their new premium wine kit, and it is only 14L of concentrated juice...

Hi Everyone, I'm sure you all know the fumes I'm referring to. It's especially strong while sanitizing bottles. Are these fumes concentrated enough to be harmful? Also, after sanitizing my bottles and letting them drain on the bottle tree, I don't rinse them. My logic is that the residual...

Hi Everyone, Total newbie here with making wine from grapes. I allowed my marquette vine to grow grapes for the first time this year. I just picked and crushed all of the grapes today. The juice is sort of a green colour. Will it turn red during fermentation? Or did I pick the grapes too early...

Hi Everyone, I will soon be harvesting my Marquette grapes. I probably have barely enough for one gallon of wine (probably not even that). I was just wondering, should I use bentonite for such a small batch? If so, how should I go about preparing the bentonite to add to my fermenting bucket...

As the title suggests....Which yeast should I use for Marquette wine? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, I've been making wine from kits now for about 6 years. I planted a Marquette grape vine (just one) about 4 years ago, and it is now producing grapes. I will probably only have enough grapes for maybe 2 bottles of wine, if I'm lucky. I've never made wine from grapes, so I'm not...

Just opened a bottle of this now, as it is 16 months old. Holy crap is it ever good. Best wine I have made so far.

Hi Everyone, I just started this kit last week. I noticed the instructions say to leave it in the primary bucket until approximately day 14, or when SG is .996 or less, then transfer to carboy and stabilize. Just wondering if there is a reason to leave it in Primary this long? I usually...

Getting the EP WS Rosso Grande Eccellente in the next week or so. Never heard of this kit before, so I guess it might be new. Anyone else started this kit? I'll keep everyone updated. Cheers!

Anyone done this kit? What are your thoughts on this one?

Last year, I bought a just pail (Festa Juice Shiraz), and I just sampled it from the carboy yesterday, WOW!!. It is delicious. Better than some of the high end Winexpert kits I have done, and a great price at only $78. I added elderberries to primary, skipped all of the chemicals except for...

Just sampled this wine after about 8 months of bulk aging. I just racked it off of the small amount of sediment at the bottom of the carboy. Going to mix in 1/4 tsp of k-meta, and transfer to another carboy in about a month, just before I bottle it. This wine tastes excellent! Right up there...

So, I've been making wine at home for a little over a year and a half now. For my first 6-9 months, I was making the wine as per the instructions, bottling when it said to bottle, etc. I was getting extremely frustrated with gassy wine. I beat the crap out of it with a wine whip for hours...

Hi Everyone, I live in Winnipeg, Canada where the winters can be as cold as -40. The University of Minnesota apparently developed this grape varietal called the Marquette. It seems there are a few Wineries in the Northern States producing wine from these grapes, and apparently have pretty...

Anyone done this one before? Early taste tests seem to point to this one being really tasty! I added 1/2 of the F-pack during primary, because the last IM kit I did was too sweet for my liking. I also added dextrose to get OG to 1.078....Originally, it was only about 1.058, which isn't much...

Hi Everyone, I started a pail of pasteurized Festa Juice Shiraz not long ago. I didn't add any bentonite at the beginning, and I don't plan on adding any clarifying agents, or -sorbate. All I plan on doing is racking every 3 months and adding k-meta. Any ideas on how long it will take to...

Hi Everyone, When increasing the acid levels in wine, generally what kind of acid do you use? I've seen some people say they just use tartaric acid, some people use acid blend (50% citric, 25% malic, 25% tartaric). Is it generally safe to just use this acid blend? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, My LHBS here in Winnipeg is placing an order for some Tosca fresh juice buckets, which will be here in April. Anyone done these before? Anyone know if they come already inoculated with yeast? Have their acid levels been adjusted? How did you like the wine that they produced? I'm...