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I've been making wine off and on since the 1970s, beginning with fruit wines and storebought grape juice, then I moved on to French-American hybrids from a grower and I've been hitting the kits pretty hard for the past few years. It finally happened for the first (and I hope only) time. I was...

I'm a big fan of Rhone wines in general. Those of you who have made both the FWK northern and southern wines, which do you find best? Why? which is most representative? I realize that taste is a subjective thing but others' opinions are useful when accompanied with commentary. I recently opened...

25 or 30 years ago a friend bought California grapes from a produce dealer in Nashville, TN. I can no longer contact him so do any of you know of sources for fresh grapes (California or otherwise) near SC Kentucky?

Interesting article. The Quest to Recreate a Lost and ‘Terrifying’ Medieval Mead - Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com)

The subject of presses came up in another forum. While I have a full size press for large quantities of grapes, I built this one several years ago for small quantities. Dimensions are a matter of what one needs and what materials one has available. I had a lot of oak so I constructed this...

This was an interesting article. I'll have to give this a try. Why Winemakers Are Adding Seawater to Their Wines - Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com)

For those in South Central KY or those wiling to travel, a friend of mine has many (maybe 1500) bottles he'd like to get rid of. He used to have several acres of grapes and made a lot of wine. He no longer has the grapes and has no use for the bottles he collected. Also, he has a motorized...

So I preordered a Washington Sangiovese Rosé kit. I love rosé and try as many of the few kits that offer them as possible. When i opened this kit, I found that it comes with a packet of reserve juice. I obviously did not read the description of the wine as it is described as "off dry". I...

I had a very pleasant surprise this week. I had a few bottles of Concord languishing in my cellar. The only reason it was there at all is I considered it undesirable or else it would have been consumed years ago. This was wine from grapes I picked in 2001. The original Brix was 15 and...

For years I used a bit of plastic pipe with vinyl hose to rack from 15 gallon kegs and 5 gallon carboys. I got the siphon going by sucking the wine into the hose. This worked well, there's no telling how many hundreds of gallons I siphoned and bottled with this system. Then I got a...

Hello all. I have been making wine since the mid 70s. Of course, I started out with fruit and flower wines. I occasionally used Welch's grape juice to make a light pleasant wine. Then, I discovered concentrates. My next step was making wine from French-American hybrid grapes. I had a...