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rehydrating corks

I'm close to bottling multiple 5 gallon batches of wine and a month ago I started rehydrating several different types o...
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posted by agent58
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by agent58

Fermentation Sugar Level Alcohol Etc..

How do you know, if you want to keep the wine at a certain alcohol level, when to rack the wine? How do you prevent the...
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posted by jfouts1979
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by jfouts1979

Extended maceration question

Hi, I have a question about extended maceration. Let's say that you are making a red wine and you are not doing extende...
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posted by igorcarajo
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by igorcarajo

Making Wine

Hi. I have recently bought a house in South of France. It has a large vine in the garden which produces abundant quanti...
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posted by morvenmcc
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by morvenmcc

Chardonnay

To Tom S. in particular and other Chardonnay vintners. Tom, this is the first year I've let my Chardonnay vines have gr...
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posted by billfrazier
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by billfrazier

questions about sulfites

I have 2 questions: 1. When you test the sulfite level in a carboy, if you just dip the titret into the top of a carboy...
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posted by lg1111
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by lg1111

Anything better then the standard acid test kit?

I normally tag my wine supply orders with my beer supplies. (I make more beer then wine) I have bought 2 different acid...
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posted by hombrewdude
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by hombrewdude

Reducing acid - one year old wine

I have some merlot and cabernet that I made last year. They both have a bit of excessive acid taste in them. I tried th...
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posted by hombrewdude
13 comments posted 21yrs posted by hombrewdude

Help with blending and aging

I have some tanks of wine that I not all the way full. They are currently sealed and were purged with CO2 I was plannin...
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posted by hombrewdude
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by hombrewdude

Concord or Catawba

My wife wants me to try to make some Catawba or Concord wine. Does anyone have a good recipe? Maybe with my previous po...
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posted by jfouts1979
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by jfouts1979

Tart / acid question

I made a few batches of wine from various frozen concentrates before I had an acid test kit. They are all young (under...
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posted by tripkings
5 comments posted 21yrs posted by tripkings

New Winemaker - Big Problems

Hello all, I am hoping that you all might be able to help me out. I have made two wines from kits, and one wine from fr...
15 comments posted 21yrs
posted by jfouts1979
15 comments posted 21yrs posted by jfouts1979

Re: DeChaunac grape vinting tricks

David, I used to use DeChaunac in a mixed red blend of FA hybrids, and it worked well, if I aged it about three years....
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posted by mtmowl
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by mtmowl