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I made two reds but also clearing veeeeerrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy slowly compared to other wines I've made

ITH-20R with 3 transmitter. USA Thank you!

Tasted my batch prior to bottling and thought it was lacking something, so I went ahead and added the conditioning pack. After adding the pack and tasting again, it didn't seem to add much in the way of sweetness, but definitely had a better mouthfeel, IMHO. Conditioning pack also seemed to...

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Welcome Warren! memnosine, warren57 I'm also a Coloradan

Has anyone else made the Reisling? I just bottled mine this last weekend. It tastes fruity but overly acidic. I added the fpac up front and am now second guessing that move. A little sweetness would likely balance that out. Hoping it will improve significantly with age.

Eyeing the Nebbiolo and the red blend. I was hoping that at least one of the reds would have the wet grape pack vs. dried. The wine kits I have made with wet grape packs generally turn out a little better. Anyone else have thoughts on dried vs. wet grapes?

Would you please explain the process of step feeding?

Ah, I misspoke, actually made the sauv blanc rose that came with the f-pac. I added the entire f-pack up front but ended up backsweetening because it didn't taste balanced. The end result was fantastic

This is a new limited edition kit to replace the cab sauv rose from last year. I made that one and it was excellent. Will be ordering this one also.

Also surprised not more oak. Planning on adding spiral to secondary. Did you get one or two packages of dried grape skins? Your picture shows one but mine came with two...

Missed the 20% off coupon but pulled trigger on Merlot - too good to pass up. Thanks for the heads up on pricing!

Has anyone tried the Mosti Mondiale Meglioli Nebbiolo? Trying to decide whether to order the MM or the Eclipse

Ordered tempranillo and riesling. Now the hard part...6 months of waiting

They all look good to me. If I had to choose one would probably be the tempranillo. Does anyone know what to expect for pricing? Similar to EP?

Looks great! In your experience, what's the cutoff for cutting kits down to 5G? Is it 10L? I'm about to start a RJS Malbec style 12L kit (10L juice, 2L dried grapeskins). Was planning on making to 6G, adding currants, tannin, extra oak, capitulating, but this has me re-thinking the...

What's your favorite RJS dessert wine that you've made? I'd like to make one this year, leaning towards Vanilla Fig or Black Forest

This kit sounds very interesting. I'm on board with the GSM, but hesitant about the cinsault. Anyone have an idea of % cinsault? I recently had a pinotage (pinot noir x cinsault) that was way too smokey for me - almost tasted like scotch.

Happy 4th of July weekend folks! Just wanted to post an update on my kit. I added the entire f-pac up front and capitulated. SG was 1.090. Followed steps in kit, fermented to 0.994, cleared, degassed, etc. Tasted the wine at that point and was a little too dry, didn't taste balanced. Ended...

Thanks for all the great suggestions Jim & Ron. I'll try decanting on the next bottle. I won't be bottling anything that hasn't been properly degassed or aged for future batches...lesson learned!