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Decided to do something radically different this year, I located a New York winery that sells grapes and decided to make it a nice vacation for me and the wife. We had a great time, the Finger Lakes are a wine enthusiasts paradise. Well when I got a grapes home and started to work with them my...

Since our local wineries are pumping out some great wines, I really made an effort last year to see how I could ratchet up my grape wine quality. So I went hog wild on some top of line kits, mainly WE-Eclipse and RJS kits. The WE Malbec and RJS Old Vine Zin are 15 months old so I decanted one of...

https://www.fulkersonwinery.com/u-pick/ Would love to go somewhere and pick my own grapes, if its a hybrid even better. Decent prices and it wouldn't take much picking to get enough for a batch of wine. Google says its a 3.5 hour drive, sounds like a plan!

Bad new to those of us close to the Bethlehem location, top story on this link http://www.keystonehomebrew.com/2019/02/big-changes-for-keystone-homebrew/

Been trying to move on from 5 gallon glass carboys, I only do quality kits and all grape wines now. For example when i do 3 lugs of grapes this gives me around 7 gallons of juice after pressing and secondary. I'd like to store it for 6 months before barreling it so I'd like to get some Spiedel...

Got a few for sale, would like to sell 5 or 6. Great shape! Upgrading to plastic and Speidel tanks. I'm about 30 minutes north of Allentown,Pa, and hour north of Philly, two hours west of NYC

I've made quite alot of wine, just got into grapes about 5 years ago. I also love visiting wineries and general wine tasting. One thing my wines really lack is that mouth drying, tannic feel of a "commercial" wines. So why exactly causes this? I have a 2 year old mixed black all-grape wine that...

I have a favorite local winery, the owner and I love to "talk shop". He kept teasing me about a awesome new wine and finally a few weeks ago he dropped it- its a Merlot that spent 30 months in a barrel. The wine is fantastic, the first Merlot that I actually was blown away by. One strange thing...

I'm on my 4th kit, all have been done with the EM style and it really works. The wine taste completely drinkable after the EM. I read about guys not using the supplied bag for your grape pack. I decided to try it..............never again!! I lost over a gallon of wine to the massive amount of...

I told myself not more juice buckets but this got my curiosity up, i just got to figure what to add to it. Interesting since i may plant some of these grapes.

I've been thinking of doing this for a few years, mainly because its really hard to get good grapes/juice to make wine with. I own a small piece of property and it looks like I will have a smaller 25 foot by 80 foot plot for one location and another that is around 120 foot by 80 foot. I can...

Been wanting to get a couple of barrels, done alot of research. Keep in mind I'm talking about NEUTRAL barrels, after you have gotten all the "oak" out of it. I want it for the micro-oxidation and aging effects. However I've read on here the small 5 gallon barrels you should only keep the wine...

I attempted an MLF on my Chilean Cab blend last spring and it obviously didn't work since the PH is around 3.2 to 3.3. I sulfited the batch and its bulk aging now. Would it be worth trying a "late" MLF in the spring? I can't afford SO2 testing right now but I do have an MLF test kit. I'm just...

I just did my last transfer of Some Chilean wine i started in may. This batch was a "Chilean Bordeaux" blend of Cab Sav, Cab Franc, and Merlot (33% each). 6 gallon juice bucket of each plus a flat of grapes each. Got 4 - 5 Gallon batches from this combo. Three of the batches I attempted my first...

Ok with my Chilean grapes/juice this year I tried to make a Bordeaux style blend. 6 gallon buckets of Cab Sav, Cab Franc, and Merlot. Plus one flat of grapes of each varietal. All of it in my 25 gallon fermenter. I've never tried an MLF and I decided this batch would be the one I'd try it with...

I've been wondering, red wine gets its color from the grape skins. So you get a red wine juice bucket from your LHBS and , naturally, you make an acceptable red wine from it. So how does this grape juice you get in these buckets get its color? I make a ton of wine from these buckets and I've...

I have 3 or 4 each of 5 and 6 gallon plastic carboys. They are all Better Bottles, Bubblers and ones from the Vintage shop (smooth-very easy to clean). Located near Allentown,pa. No shipping. Like $10 each

I had a problem last year with my wine not taking any oak. Is it possible my wine storage is too cold? It was 60-65 degrees which is supposed to be ideal. I also have a problem with my wines not degassing even after they sit for a year. Again that might be due to the wine being too cold. I'm...

Decided to join here, I'm a pretty experienced winemaker, and every year I learn some new tips and tricks that I should be sharing. My wife helps me alot with bottling too. I have 18 batches under the stairs from last year (5 gallons each). Everything from Blueberry and blackberry to Barolo...