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I haven't made wine for several months, and started a Kit of Pinot Noir. I have made this type a few times, and the WE Cab Sauv several times, as well as many years of brewing beer. This is the first time that nothing is happening in the fermenter. It's been several days now. I opened the lid...

An unknown Boulderite must have planted these grapes years ago. My wife kinda hates the vines, but not so much since I built the new fence between us and the rental house next door. One year she tried making grape preserves, but didn't harvest enough and they didn't have good enough flavor. The...

I have discovered Vintners Best Fruit wine Base, in Watermelon, and Watermelon concentrate ... both from LabelPeelers. I have made 3 batches of WE CA Moscato, but I'm thinking of making some Watermelon "Fruitscato" to start the Summer. (I've also made 3 batches of WE Cabernet Sauvignon, and...

Yesterday I bottled my 6 gallon batch of Cabernet. Between the two Carboy steps, I pulled out nearly a bottle and tasted it. I decided that I could perhaps make it more like my favorite, Auspicion ... by simply adding/blending that brand. So during bottling I poured two bottles of Auspicion into...

I don't know much about wines. I have always enjoyed beer and scotch. But in the last four or five years I have been enjoying wine instead. Of course, these two are very economical, but I really like the Auspicion Cabernet Savignon and the Meiomi Pinot Noir. What sort of additions and/or...

In a thread in Introductions several members gave me lots of good advice in getting started in Wine making. So I have started a 1 gallon kit of California Moscato. I will probably use a few of my re-purposed green glass beer bottles for this first batch, and other small batches of probly a Cab...

Greetings ... I have received my 1 gallon WineXpert kit for California Moscato. Excited to get started! I already have all of the equipment because I made 67 batches of a light Ale between 2012 and 2018. That was more than 3,300 bottles (re-purposed green Dos Equis and Moosehead bottles). Of...