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  1. Steve Wargo

    What to do with harsh acidic bottled wine

    Instead of dumping it. Try to blend it into table wine. Buy an inexpensive bottle of commercial Merlot and mix a combination that works for you. It will add tannin and knock down the acid. I blended it with Merlot and it turned out to be good drinking wine. I think the acidity of the...
  2. Steve Wargo

    petite pearl wine

    Glad to hear the ideas from other people growing and making wine from these French Hybrid grapes. Everyone I give a bottle to tells me how good the wine was and how different it is compared to other wines they drink.
  3. Steve Wargo

    petite pearl wine

    I've crushed Petite Pearl and Marquette and made wine. The RC212 is good for the Marquette ferment, but must be fed nutrients about 2 days after the start of ferment and maybe a little afterward. The Pinot Noir Red is part of the Marquette grape DNA. The Marquette can be too acidic for some...
  4. Steve Wargo

    Day Lily Wine - I'm going for it!

    Wow it looks great. Plus the wine is not found in any store I know about.
  5. Steve Wargo

    Day Lily Wine - I'm going for it!

    Thanks for the insight. The Daylilies will be in bloom very soon in my area
  6. Steve Wargo

    Day Lily Wine - I'm going for it!

    How many or volumes of daylillies did you use per gallon of water. There are many ditch daylilies growing wild all around my area. I think I would give it a try. I think it would be a unique wine.
  7. Steve Wargo

    Day Lily Wine - I'm going for it!

    I'm not surprised that a wine can be made out of daylilies. As I kid I instinctively picked out and ate the pistils from the daylilies in my grandparent's home/backyard. Just a few. Some tasted sweet. Some didn't which I spit out. I've read where specific daylily variety petals are used in...
  8. Steve Wargo

    New Bottle Sanitizing

    A difference in taste can be detected in commercial wines from bottle to bottle. Tasting the same brand, vintage, and grape variety. I've detected it in my own wine when bottling from a large carboy that was cleared and corked for over a year. I now transfer the wine to a bottling carboy, add...
  9. Steve Wargo

    Japanese beetles

    There was some leaf damage on a few grape leaves in a specific area. At first glance no beetles. While turning over leaves to the bottom side, hiding, the arseO beetles. They committed suicide. So far haven't seen any other noticeable damage. Yet.
  10. Steve Wargo

    Locating Seeds

    As you know, Wine Grapes are usually grown from cuttings taken from the original plants (Clones). Growing grapes from seed will not guarantee a plant and grapes similar to the mother plant. You might get away with growing the grapes from Campania grape species clone cuttings if you take care to...
  11. Steve Wargo

    Fermentation surprise

    During warmer weather, I've seen fermentations go fairly quickly. When mine went too quickly (3 days) they were smelling a little like a Zoo.
  12. Steve Wargo

    Any other thrifty wine makers out there?

    I'm bad at remembering names.
  13. Steve Wargo

    Any other thrifty wine makers out there?

    I've read or heard about wine made from just about anything that you can imagine. Dandylion wine, Hibiscus, Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables, Flowering Shrubs like honeysuckle, Chocolate, Coffee, Tea Garlic. If it isn't poisonous to eat/consume or ferment then I guess you can make wine out of it...
  14. Steve Wargo

    Gallon glass jugs

    Last Year I found 1 gallon or 4-liter glass jugs on the FB marketplace. I'm not sure if people still can sell jugs there. FB took down my ad I put up about two empty large 1-gallon jugs. FB police Said it violated rules. I didn't call them sexually descriptive jugs or use any incorrect PC...
  15. Steve Wargo

    Hello from Toledo - Spain

    Welcome to the site.
  16. Steve Wargo

    Wine off-gassing smells like chemicals

    I had a similar experience making a fruit juice wine. The odor generated was the result of the air temps reached inside the fermentation room 84-F degrees, let alone the liquid temps reached in the juice due to the additional heat fermentation creates. The gas smell was more like acetone than...
  17. Steve Wargo

    Hello from Michigan

    Welcome to the forum.
  18. Steve Wargo

    Help!! Are my vines done?

    I've been killing grape vines for 20 some years and they still come back. The point is, they are hard to kill.
  19. Steve Wargo

    What R you doing today?

    I drink because of the all the health benefits it provides. Wine for longevity of life, Beer for nourishment, and vitamins , Whiskey for forgetfulness.
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