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I racked my Niagara wine on 2-5-21. S.G. 1.02. It's clear, with no visible co2 coming off. I tested S.G. and it's still at 1.02. I like the taste and the aftertaste is great. It's dryer than I would want it so I thought of sweetening it and bottling it. Can I use white grape juice to sweeten it...

I have 18lb Niagara grapes, 8 1/2 lb sugar, 2 gallon water 2 quart juice from last years harvest, pectin enzyme, yeast nutrient and 5 crushed Camden tablets in a 5 gallon bucket. I've been hand crushing some grapes and setting skins aside to make some head room in the bucket. My question is when...

Looks like I'm going to have too much wine going into the secondary fermentation stage and I don't another glass jar available. Can I use a plastic gallon jug from vinegar or another kitchen product, or does it need to be glass?

I'm going to be making my first wine from my own Niagara grapes this year. I've read that with Niagara, you can leave the juice and the skin together to get a nicer flavor. Can someone confirm that? I have a Breville centrifugal juicer which I used last year to juice my grapes then froze the...

Last year, I didn't have enough grapes to make wine, so I put some through a juicer, froze the juice and froze a few gallons whole. But after pruning my grapes almost to death this spring, I've got more than enough grapes for 5 gallons! I'll be adding the frozen juiced ones, but I have a...

Last year my vines produced a fair crop of Niagara grapes but still not enough to make a batch of wine, so I pressed some and froze the juice, and froze the rest whole. I wanted to know if I can mix this year's harvest with the frozen ones when I make wine this fall.

I've been physically prevented from working on my vines until today. I had a great time pruning my vines back. They've all started sprouting leaves, so I wondered if I could plant them at this time. I stuck some into some dirt and are keeping them in the sun. We've entered a week of wet...

Greetings. While I've made wine in the past, and have a couple Niagara vines for wine, I'm mainly interested in propagating my vines to give to people. I'm 72 and not able to do much, but want to bless others with the abundance I've received.