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So, will you use sorbate from now on?

I bet it was a good time with great wines! What an awesome opportunity.

I wish you the best of luck on the Novella PN. There are several of us waiting to see your results and thoughts on the Novella. FYI ... standing over your kits watching them doesn't help them age. I've tried it! 🤣 But what I have done was take a full 6 gallon Strawberry carboy, and rack...

I've made 15+ of the Island Mist kits, in fact, I have one going right now. (Strawberry) I've been buying the Global red grape concentrate and only adding half of the concentrate to each kit for extra body. A few times I've added the whole Global concentrate. I add about 5-6 cups of sugar...

Racked my FWK Tavola Syrah today into glass from the fermenter. Started at 1.090sg and ended at 1.000sg (14 days later) and wondered if I should have let it sit a few more days to get somewhere in the .994-.998 area but what's done is done and its in glass. Added 1/4 tsp K-meta, American med...

Who has two thumbs and his WE Enigma Reserve kit just arrived today "THIS GUY"! points thumbs towards myself I'm excited to get it going but because of some other commitments the wine kit needs to wait a couple weeks. The Enigma and Carmenere arrived today with X2 packets of RC 212 yeast...

The first two bottles you can see the etching did not show up very well and when the bottle is full its even more difficult to see the etching. So we blasted those bottles to look frosted. The cool thing about Cricut permanent vinyl is it sticks for 50-75 washings and it shows up on the...

Actually did that but the label etching creme doesn't show up very well so we sandblasted those etched bottles last week and it created a frosted look. Vinyl labels show up much better than etched. Feel like I wasted a month of my life etching bottles that didn't really show up or look that...

Like hitting a home run, bottom of the 9th, with two outs, two strikes and bases loaded losing by three runs to win the game for your team. Doesn't get any better than that! Congrats. Nice story.

Pulled a bottle of strawberry wine today for "testing purposes". Lightly sandblasted the bottles for a frosted look, and used gold Cricut vinyl to create my labels.

BTW .. take notes or document everything you are doing in detail. It will help you later decide what you did right or wrong plus when asking for assistance you have exact information instead of guessing. I've been there ... done that. :D Welcome to WMT and good luck on your wine making.

+1 ... I'm going to conduct a similar experiment based off Bryans information. I have a FWK Syrah five days from finish fermenting (July 4th), and I intend to rack into glass, wait like you to rack again, add Kmeta and let sit for 10-11 months. The only change is at 10-11 months, I plan to...

lol ... yes. It was a little oaky, with hints of spice and maybe a little earthy. Not really full bodied but a good place for me to start on my dry reds. I've got two Pinot Noir's in bulk right now and hope they come out close to 19 Crimes. Hope you're doing ok Dave.

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Thanks for the reply Bryan & Dave .... just wondered if I was missing something.

Bulk vs Bottle .... not sure my intention is to let my wine age in the bottle but more of a goal to have a few bottles to drink sooner and keep the remaining wine in a 3 gallon carboy for the remainder of bulk aging. So I also split a batch this week for the second time in my wine making...

Had no idea. Thanks! Len, Its good to know that EC-1118 came with the kit. I will order the RC 212 yeast with my order. Keep up with the updates on 7/1.

Len I'm sure others are watching to see your path but especially me since I'm buying this same Reserve Enigma kit next month or maybe August. Did not realize it came with a second bag since I've never made a WE reserve kit. Please keep us posted on your progress and decisions. Good luck.

Agree ... BB flavorings were not good for me either so I turned to ABC Crafted Series. With my Vintners Best 2022 concord, 2023 raspberry and black cherry (and a few other choices) should give me enough wine options for this year. Would love to see FWK come out with a raspberry. I'm not a...

Amen! Great things to consider when wine making. I'm making wines now to bottle in 2024 and the waiting with bulk aging is sometimes brutal because you want it to hurry, then bottle and drink it! 😬