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Racking Question
Hi, I'm making a Wine Expert Rioja kit and I have a question. According to the directions, Step 3 calls for stabilising the wine by adding metabisulhite, sorbate and then stirring. I completed this 9...
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Sur Lies?
What exactly does this do it a wine? I saw one post that said a "Yeasty flavor". I didn't think you wanted that?
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Fining with both + and - agents.
I don't ask many questions on this newsgroup but I ALWAYS read the postings EVERYDAY and greatly appreciate the efforts of those who respond with their expertise. I have learned so much from reading...
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MY SUMMER TOMATO WINE
i made 5 gallons of tomato wine back in the summer,july. said id update you on the 3 month mark it was prett nasty with a strong tomato aftertaste. the tomato taste is gone now and allthough its not...
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Floor corker malfunctioning
I have an Italian floor corker that when compressing a cork one of the irises opens up a 1/16" or so which leaves a crease in synthetic corks and everyone will leak as soon as it's laid on it's side...
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Why Water?
Many of the wine recipes I see start with juice and ask you to add water to top off. Why use water? Why not use juice? I would think that would add more body to the wine. IT also adds more sugar, but...
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Family winery off to big start
Family winery off to big start StoneBrook is cranking By Mike Rutledge Enquirer staff writer CAMP SPRINGS - For five years, Dennis Walter had grown wine grapes in his vineyards. But only last month...
 
Synthetic corks
Do the synthetic corks that are now being used by many wine manufacturers seal bottles better the same or worse than real corks. I would think there is less of an oxygen ingress. Thanks, Crhoff
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Old fashioned wine making.
Folks, Just thought I'd share an old family recipe for step-by-step winemaking (with pictures). My dad was an Italian immigrant from Calabria and I have fond memories of watching him make wine in our...
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Recycling Used Wine Bottles
Hello, I have a lot of used wine bottles sitting around and I'm trying to come up with various craft ideas to do with the bottles. So far all I've come up with is making a wall out of the bottles, but...
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Re: cloudy gift
Hello, While I am thankful and appreciative for this Christmas gift, the idea of drinking cloudy, sediment laced wine, well, quite frankly...I can't quite bring myself to do it (especially when I know...
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Making base wine for sparkling red.
Greetings and Happy New Year. Who has a hangover? I rather enjoy sparkling red wines, especially those made from shiraz (South Australian of course). I have never succeeded in making a suitable base...
 
Yeast for Wheat and Barley Wines
In the coming month I plan on trying Jack's recipes for Barley and Wheat wines(Actually, to be technical, believe both recipes are somoeone else's, but getting them off of jack's site). Anyway, these...
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Frozen fruit
I'm supposed to pick up about 50 pounds of frozen grapes (in a bunch of 1-gallon zip-lock bags) from a neighbor sometime this weekend. I imagine this could take a while to thaw... Is there any risk in...
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Bottle Shock
What does it taste like? I have some Pinot Grigio I bottled on 11/20. Tried some tonight and it doesn't taste right. Kind of a musty taste as my wife says.
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