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First of the 2018 Restricted Quantity RJS limited edition kits arrived today. Australia Shiraz Viognier 18L Came with: 2 packs genuine winery dried grape skins Nice labels French oak powder Benonite Hungarian oak cubes(which ill be swapping for french oak) Standard clearing agents (chitosan and...

are there any reservations blending wines which have gone through mlf using different mlb. Half were vp41, the other half was viniflora oneos. All have completed and i want to top off by blending.

So for this years crush i wanted to try out the rennisance yeast for my reds, its a non h2s yeast. It was recommended by a member ( i believe it was 4score but i cant find the thread to be sure) unfortunatley i could not find any for my reds in the smaller packs but i did find rennisance vivace...

Just wondering what clearing agents you will be using for your crushed reds this year? I was thinking of using nothing or possibly benonite.

But not fermented yet :) For $100 i just picked up 5- 6 gallon glass carboys 1-5 gallon glass carboy 1-3 gallon glass carboy Fermenter bucket Bottle tree Buon vino filter/pump Corker Tons of real corks and some allgomated ones 3 cases of bottles And 3 boxes full of airlocks...

Got my last shipment from bosagrapes for the year, got my mlf, french oak, twin corks, fermaid o, more chromatography solution and paper, and opti-red, one thing, first year doing real grapes is an expensive one going from kits having to buy the press, crusher, larger fermenters, ect. So im...

So we had our first frost yesterday. Ive done 2 crushes so far but i had planned and ordered everything i needed to do 2 more before the season was over. I completely forgot its thankgiving here this weekend in canada and ill be going out of town this weekend. So i guess my question is how much...

Hand picked 270lbs of marechal foch today from montey creek ranch winery. Now that the syrah and merlot are in the secondaries time to fill the fermenters back up

I have an oppurtunity to get some real high quality grapes from a local winery at a real good price, 1$cad per kg, my problem is i dont have room in my winery to ferment too much more at the moment and i was wondering if it would be ok to put 500lbs into a deep freezer until im ready to use them?

Ok so i got my first grape shipment. The reisling we ordered didnt happen, not why. Anyway i was compensated with merlot instead and i cant say im disapointed. So, i have in the refrigerators 3 lugs of Syrah, and 3 lugs of Merlot. I only bought one batch of MLF bacteria but it says its good to...

Has anyone made wine from these varietals, i just found a local supplier.

Can someone help me pick out what i need, whats the deal with the glass jar? I can buy a beginner kit for $40, a winemakers kit for $80 or just the glass jar for $90?

Stupid question but it wouldnt be the first time my supplier has mixed up a product, they order large amounts and then split it up themselves into foodsaver bags and put there own labels on it, can someone just confirm for me then Goferm is slightly darker than FermaidK.

Looking for a vinmetrica supplier in canada, westcoast prefferably.

I recently bought the accuvin free so2 test kit, but have been doing some research and have found some people are saying that there not that accurate. At almost $5 per test im a little disapointed to hear that, what are the majority of you using to test for free s02? Accuvin? Vinmetrica?

Ive been making kits and fruit wines for a while i have all the nessasary tools required for that. This is my first real crush using grapes. I am getting 300lbs of merichal foch from a local vineyard. Ive got a grape crusher, press i will have to figure out still, does this list of ingredients...

Hi i found a local vineyard that has Gewürztraminer and kerner grapes just about ready, i was wondering if anyone has used these varietals to make wine from grapes before and approx how many lbs of each i will need per gallon.

Has anyone done the Primeur RJS winery series Australian Cab Sauv? If so how did it turn out? Fruit wines all done for the year so now starting the reds, got 6 months to wait before i get the first of my RQ 2018 kits so i decided to pick up 3 of the Primeur kits. Australian Cabernet Sauv...

Had an epic harvest off my apricot tree this year, about 500lbs. Unfortunatley the peach doesnt seem to have the same luck this year, still 3 weeks to a month away from harvest but looking like only 150-200lbs of peaches this year, either way i love apricot wine and this years harvest will gain...

Im making a blueberry wine as close to our favorite commercial blueberry wine as possible. Just cant wrap my head over the backsweetening conversion. I want my final product to be 15-18 grams per liter of sugar. Can anyone tell me what my sg should be, finished sg was 0.990-0.992 sg. Its a 6...