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thanks, I called my wine supply store and talked to the owner about it. She said she’s had problems with their cork supplier selling her defective corks around the time I-made those kits so that could be the reason why. I have noticed on some of the bottles I open the cork brea. I do add 1/4...

I have a few different varieties of Island Mist Kit wines that’s been in the bottle now for 18 months ago or so and they seem to have lost their flavor and turning a little sour. Do these sweet wines need to be drank by the year mark?? I make them per instructions and add a 4 pound bag of sugar...

I typically buy the expensive wine kits if I’m making a Red or White. I’d give a nod to the RJS premier kits over Winexpert because it seems most of their $130+ kits have a grape pack and lots of oak to add. Grape packs and oak packets in the wine kits are what makes a red wine taste better so...

After re reading your question, yeah that’s not how a Niagara Wine should taste. Sounds like the juice was bad or old or maybe got a infection somehow. Definitely shouldn’t have a woody/musty smell. I guess go ahead and backsweeten some and wait it out a month or 2 and see what happenes

What Sal said. 👍 I’ve made a couple Niagara wines and to me it’s a pretty neutral wine that doesn’t really have a lot flavor, if that makes sense. I always fermented dry and then back sweetened to taste.

I didn’t care much for the Riesling and Cabernet Franc so I agree with you on that, they did seem fake. I won’t make them again, think I gave mine away.

I think all 3 tasted really good and tasted exactly how it’s described. The Creme Brûlée and Salted Carmel both got placed in the State Fair when I entered them a few years back. I guess my only regret is I didn’t drink them young, they seemed to lose their flavor after aging awhile. Just...

My favorite dessert wine kits are Salted Caramel Creme Brûlée Coffee is very good also

Northern Brewer just got some 5 gallon bourbon barrels in. $160 total, includes shipping. $20-$30 more expensive than other places but if you want one not really a bad deal.

I pretty much do the same thing as you. After I use my 5 gallon barrels 3 times, I then start adding cubes soaked in bourbon to the barrel to try to rejuvenate that bourbon and wood taste that diminishes thru uses

If you want to use med charred wood cubes, you need to use around 4 ounces of cubes in 3 cups of bourbon, doesn’t matter what kind kind of bourbon, I use Old Barton $10 a small bottle. Soak the cubes in bourbon for a 1 week and then dump it ALL in your carboy of wine for additional 2 weeks...

I've made all the Dessert Wine Kits and they don't need any more sugar, they are already super sweet and potent at 18% alcohol but it doesn't hurt anything if you added sugar it will ferment out. Tannin and coffee are fine, seems you made some small tweaks. I don't tweak the Dessert Wines, if...

I wouldn’t worry about topping up unless your bulk aging for 3+months. I’ve done the coffee dessert wine and since it’s a kit, I went 2 weeks primary, another 2 weeks in secondary where you degas add stabilizing chemicals and flavor pack and then a final transfer for 2 weeks for final clearing...

One time I bought the cheap Cabernet Sauvignon Kit from Winexpert, aged it in a used bourbon barrel for a month and it took 2nd place at the State Fair

I fermented out 15 pounds of Honey and made 5 gallons of mead. I split the 5 gallons into 2-2.5 gallons of mead batches. I added potassium sorbate and potassium metasulphite to kill the yeast and then I back-sweetened with 1-2 cans (can’t remember) of Orchards Frozen Canned Margarita mix in the...

I made a margarita mead last fall/year, it was 12% alcohol and tasted like a harsh limeade, opened one last week it was delicious.

You really don’t need to “Tweak” any of the wine kits you buy especially the more expensive ones. They’ll all make good wine. The wine kits with lots of wood and grape skins make the best wines. With that being said though I made a $80 Cabernet Sauvignon wine kit one time, entered it into the...

Agree, I tasted mine last week, it’s around 4 months old also, very good flavors already, should be great around the year Mark. I just made my per kit Instructions.

i sent you a message thru winemaking conversation. Hopefully you got it. 👍

Don’t know if my picture came thru but my price shows online $113 for the kit $23 for shipping to Ky. Are you adding it to cart and then shipping?? Hard to believe they charging you $50 for shipping .