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    Thank you for your very helpful response. Just so I can be sure I understand, are you using Color Pro for wine you are making from grapes, or are you using it with kits?
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    This is the first time I've ever heard of Opti-Red and Lallzyme -- and Color Pro, for that matter. All new to me. You experienced winemakers, do you taste a real difference with these products? It seems like a simple addition (if you have a gram scale) and pretty cheap, so I'm thinking I'll...
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    Other Finer Wine Kits new process white wines

    Ten years of winemaking and I've never made a Chardonnay. It's time for that to change. Do any of you good people have a favorite Chard kit to recommend? I've made a lot of FWK reds, but I'm open to other makers too. I'd appreciate any guidance you can give.
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    Other Tweeking Cheap Kits

    Thank you so much for the info.
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    Did you ever get an answer to this question? There's a thread from 2006 that talks about flying with homemade wine, but I couldn't find anything more recent except your question. I'd love to know about someone's recent experience with bringing homemade wine in checked baggage on a domestic US...
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    I have experimented with just removing the cork, and it doesn't have the same effect, at least to my taste on these particular wines, as pouring out a glass, thus leaving a bunch of head space, and then letting it sit 24 hours or so. I haven't noticed the same difference in other wines that I...
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    Finer Wine Kit Finer Wine Kits

    Just plain. I think it's the air in the bottle that does the work. Taking the cork out but not pouring a glass doesn't seem to have the same effect.
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    Finer Wine Kit Finer Wine Kits

    I was sipping my Tavola Cabernet Sauvignon, bottled about a year ago, and luxuriating in its wonderful flavor and complexity. I can't decide if it or the Tavola Bordeaux is my favorite "early drinker." For those of you who have tried these wines and didn't like them, let me make a suggestion...
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    Other Tweeking Cheap Kits

    Here is an update to my post from June of 2022. In December I started two kits of On the House Merlot ($37.50 per kit including shipping). One I made exactly per the included instructions (batch 1), and the other (batch 2) I tweaked -- blackberry fpac, Chaptalized to just under 1.10 S.G...
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    Back sweetening

    Is there a reason to use wine conditioner versus sugar, or the other way around? I want to back sweeten my FWK Riesling. I know the WE Riesling kit uses juice, which is more like the way Riesling is made in Germany, but I couldn't figure out how to get an appropriate juice/concentrate, hence...
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    Finer Wine Kit Finer Wine Kits

    Perfect. That's what I'll do. Thanks much for your excellent advice.
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    Finer Wine Kit Finer Wine Kits

    I'll try a slurry. Thoughts on the easiest, least dusty way to do that?
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    Is the only purpose of the carbon to keep the white wine from darkening? I used it in their Riesling and didn't mind it, but if I can skip it and only affect the color, I think I might do that. Are there other beneficial effects also, or just color?
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    Other Tweeking Cheap Kits

    My first thought is swap out the kit yeast for something that will enhance your wine. The couple of yeasts I checked that were listed for Tempranillo in MoreWine's yeast pairing don't seem to be available in single-batch packets, but if you can find a specialty yeast that will enhance the fruit...
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    Other Recommend kit for dry riesling?

    To revisit my comment about the FWK Riesling, I made it last year, didn't like it much, and put it aside (I don't usually age my Rieslings very long). So now it's been in the bottle a year and I tried it and I quite like it. In fact, I just purchased another kit (on sale) and I think I'm going...
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    Other Recommend kit for dry riesling?

    RJS Cru International German-style Riesling is my recommendation for a dry Riesling. I myself prefer halb trocken, and I'm pretty happy with the WineXperts Washington Riesling, although I liked the old process better than the new "improved" version. I didn't care much for the FWK Riesling...
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    Other Label Peelers

    I thought it was hilarious. Well done, Label Peelers. Thanks for the April Fools' Day chuckle.
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    Other Tweeking Cheap Kits

    Today I reached my goal of making more than my legal 100 gallons of wine in a calendar year. Don't report me to the ATF; I live in a two-person household so I can legally make 200 gallons, which for me is really out of the question. But 100 gallons felt ambitious to me, and I'm pleased to have...
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    Tasteless wine

    I can't say I have solved the "tasteless fruit wine" problem, but I have perhaps added a new tool to the toolbox. I made peach cheong (a pound of peaches, a pound of sugar, sealed in a container for 100 days, and the liquid you drain off is cheong) and used it to back sweeten my peach wine, and...
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    In the interest of accuracy and in case anyone wants to use this recipe, I checked my notes and found that I made this kit to five and a half gallons, not five as I originally posted. I should have remembered this because it caused me a problem. Knowing that my six-gallon carboy holds six...
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