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Can someone please tell me if wineries that barrel age their wine, risk oxidation due to evaporation that occurs?

I just started fermenting a Chilean Malbec about 7 days ago and would like to make it a Cranberry Malbec (like the Island Mist kits). I have a couple of questions: 1. Should I make the F-Pack from juice or fruit? 2. If I make from juice, what is the proper method? Buy a bottle of Cranberry...

Hey everyone, Haven't posted in awhile, but I have a question I'd like to pose to the membership. With the Chilean season approaching, my partner and I were thinking of making a Meritage blend from the juice. We just made a couple hundred bottles from the California crop back in September...

Did the crush on Saturday. Going to need a container to keep the juice after the press. Our yield is going to be around 60 gallons give or take. Would it be ok to secondary the juice in Brute trashcans?

Just ordered 720 lbs of Muscat/Alicante. Delivery in 3 weeks.

Hi Guys, Going to start making wine from grapes, and am loking for some used/new equipment. In particular, I need a manual crusher/destemmer, and a small press. I live in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area. Please keep your eyes open. Thanks

Hey guys, Just a heads up that Grapestompers has this kit on sale for $100. It's the 18L with the grapeskins. I know I hear alot of good things about it from the people on the forum, but I can't pick one up, since I just started a 18L Yakima Valley Merlot. Just thought I would make others...

A fellow noobie winemaker that I work with had an issue this weekend. She started a Cellar Craft Chardonnay Semillion 16L kit, and found out that after pitching the yeast, her primary started to leak. She panicked :m thinking that she lost yeast while the bucket was leaking, and added some...

I just ordered a Cellar Craft 18L Yakima Valley Merlot w/Grape skins. Any of the members made this kit before? Thoughts? Thanks. :r

Ok. Thanks to all of the good advice I have received in this forum, I decided to try a Strawberry Wine (1 Gallon Recipe). I decided to try Jack Kellars from the June/July 2009 edition of Winemaker Magazine. I modified it a tad based on some of the other recipes I have read. Here they...

I am looking to start my first fruit wine. Does anyone have any suggestions about what is a good one to try? I was checking out MadRivers Strawberry, but I also saw a couple of Bannana recipes. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Since I have no 6 gallon carboys left, would it be ok to rack into a 5 gallon carboy, and the remainder into a gallon bottle, adding sterilized marbles to reduce headspace? I know it probably is a stupid question, but thanks to you guys I'm learning, thus coming up with new stupid questions.

Got a bit of a problem. I went to rack from prim. to second. the other night, and noticed that the bottem piece of my auto siphon (the piece that is supposed to reduce the transfer of lees) was missing. I really don't feel like spending another $11 on an auto siphon. Does anyone have any...

Anybody out there makes this kit? Grapestompers is selling it for $127, and I was interested in picking it up. Any help would be appreciated. :r

Can anyone put me in touch with any local wine making clubs in the Delaware County area of PA? :r

I have a spigot on my primary. I also have a Ferrari Bottle filler. I know this is probably a dumb question, but can't I just use the spigot to fill my bottles versus the bottle filler? Any help would be apppreciated. :r

Just started a Borolo kit last night. Anyone have any insights into how long this will take to age? Should I look into bulk aging in a carboy for 6 months? A year or more? Any help will be appreciated. :r