Hello everyone. I am pretty new to wine making, but I have been meandering through the forums here learning, so I need to extend my gratitude. Thank you for all of your unsolicited advice. It is greatly appreciated. I did my first kit over a year ago, and have done about 5 or 6 batches since. I am hooked. The sight of bubbles in an airlock is more satisfying than almost anything, and when I have nothing cooking I am anxious and need to get something going. I love wine, but I have a feeling that I will be giving alot of it away because I will never be able to keep up with my personal supply... Lately I have been going a bit beyond kits. I made a batch of Great Value (Walmart) white grape peach which only came out ok because I made a rookie mistake when I degassed. It overflowed and I lost a bunch over the top. It was like Mount St. Helens! The second mistake was adding water to make up for it. In the end it came out ok, but weak. Right now I have a batch of skeeter pee clarifying which is, so far, really good, and I want to make a batch of Dragon's Blood. Heck, I want to try everything. (Except I did see a post where someone mentioned turnip wine. Doesn't sound good, but who knows?) So far everything I have made I consider to be successful to varying degrees. My wife likes it all (so do I, but it always could be better), and I made a batch of Malbec that a few have said is the best wine they ever had. I never knew making wine could be so cheap, easy and satisfying! Can't wait for the next one!
