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Nebbiolo - What do you mean that "they throw away 50% of the juice"? I will admit that I don't know much about commercial wine making, as I only grow Concord grapes and brew for my family and friends. Personally, I don't know anyone else that makes wine.

I know this is an older forum, but if someone is considering using the OP's recipe; I have black current bushes in my orchard her in mid Missouri. Black currents are hard to eat. They have a very "tannic astringency" taste and it stays in your mouth way too long for me. They are like eating...

Awesome. Hopefully, next year my trees will have enough mulberries that I can use some for wine. Our blackberries usually produce 5-6 gallons each year. Not familiar with "sand plum"- we do have a sand cherry bush?

I guess I must look at wine making differently. I brew wine because I don't want all those "chemicals" in my wine. Otherwise, I could just purchase commercial wine.

Ok- what does TA stand for?

We raise Juliet Bush cherries and this summer picked 4 1/2 gallons off of two bushes. These cherries are sweeter than pie cherries, but not as sweet as "sweet cherries"(Bing) and about the same size as Bing cherries. I have never made cherry wine as I have not found a commercial one that I...

Yeasty Boy - Maybe you just have way too much time on your hands. But thanks for the great review anyway. I had a tough time in qualitative chemistery, (had it was 60 years ago) and would have to do a lot of study to get your results. Good work! I hate those darn flies anyway.

I don't know why you are having trouble with the new siphon. Put it in a a bucket of water and play with it. You will figure it out. Also, you could have done it the old way.. Remove the plastic tube and suck on the end to get it started. I did this for years until I got "educated".

It's been my experience with red grapes that the primary fermentation can start within a few hours. You said that you added grapes over a "couple of days", so your fermentation started the first day. My wife is also reacts to sulphites, so this year I did not add any at the start. I raise my...

I made Concord grape wine again this year. A 6 gallon bucket heaping full yielded 27 pounds of good quality ripe grapes. Concord grapes do not all ripen at the same time, so you usually have some very green grapes on the same cluster as the ripe grapes. The Concord wine I started last fall...