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This is just my third year making wine from grapes. First year using my 4 bucket press, but only on the very last of the 5 different wines. Really happy with what I hope will be 5 distinct wines, though time will tell how distinct the 2nd and 3rd are, as well as the 4th and 5th. Here's a quick...

So Monday morning I woke up before my alarm and was having trouble getting back to sleep. My mind turned to wine. It had been a nice weekend including lots of wine stuff: I received 3 different kits from Label Peelers. On Friday a Marselan Limited Edition kit from WinExpert arrived. I was...

I have the RJS En Primeur Amarone kit with 2 kilos of wet grape skins. I'm excited about trying extended maceration (EM) but so far I just have plastic buckets and glass carboys from my home brewing set up. I may eventually buy a Speidel, or Big Mouth Bubbler, or Fermonster or something else...

Curious if I could do an RJS premium kit in my primary (say Super Tuscan or Amarone), followed immediately by an RJS Cru International kit (say Sangiovese or Nebbiolo). Between batches I would clean and sanitize the primary, but I would start batch 2 the same day I racked batch 1 to secondary...

Hello all, I've been reading the kit winemaking thread in earnest since starting my first kit on Super Bowl Sunday with the RSJ International Cru Nebbiolo. I was a bit skeptical but also tempted due to how much good Nebbiolo (Barolo and Barbaresco) costs. So I read more about wine kits and the...