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I'm planning on bottle aging the wine as I'm aware that plastic is not a good container for wine, even if I do solve the headspace issue. Any suggestions on what solid objects I could use to displace the wine? I've thought of: Glass marbles - far too expensive for the quantity I need. Water...

Racked to secondary today at SG 1.002 Do I need to do something about the amount of headspace? I don't have glass carboys, only these beer barrels. I could either top it up with some water or add some solid objects to increase the volume without diluting it. The current volume of wine is...

And so it begins. SG was 1.110 for some reason even though I made it to the correct 23L. I did make sure to stir everything thoroughly. Questions: 1. Should I ferment at the recommended 22-24C or would a lower temperature be better? 2. Should I top up with some cold boiled water due to...

My Beaverdale shiraz was probably about 6 months old when I drank it. I suppose I have had equally bad bottles of wine from the shop, but it's still disappointing and the fact remains that noone liked it. Will be starting a WE SI Luna Rossa tomorrow. I sure hope it's worth it, otherwise I may...

Thanks for your replies. Actually, I do make country wines, I just didn't mentally include that in 'winemaking' for some reason. I suppose the process is largely the same. The country whites generally are brilliant and the reds can be OK, but can't reasonably be compared to a red wine made...

Hello forum. I'm from the UK and completely new to making wine, although I have been brewing beer all-grain for quite some time. I want to get into winemaking to hopefully reduce the wine budget and maybe even get a better quality of wine to drink [which would probably not be hard, considering...