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    WineXpert Suggest an Island Mist Kit for Me...

    Wade I am going to do a blueberry pinot noir mist kit one of these days and was thinking of upping the alchol content, my plan was to boil 4 cups of surgar into 1 liter of water and add to the must, is this the proper way to do it? what would you suggest?
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    Vineco 23 liter Vinterra kits

    Hi All I was looking through vineco web site today trying to determine which wine kit that I would process next, I came across the vinterra 23 liter kits now they say that they are 23 liters of pasteurized grape must, is this pure grape must or is there water already added to this? they...
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    Historical methods

    Nitasch I see you have some sweet rasberry mead bulk aging would you happen to have the recipie for this and would you mind sharing it thanks fuzz
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    Cork Issues

    Thanks for the info Wade. I will take your advice and sanitize the corks from now on, and I do agree it is cheap insurance for a lot of time spent to make wine.
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    Cork Issues

    Wade on the package it states they are silicone treated, made in portugal they come in a plastic bag of 100. I have opened the bag and used 30 at a time, folded the bag and used them 2 weeks later with no problems with the wine.
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    Cork Issues

    I purchased mine from a wine supply store, and the lady that owns the store told me, that I did not have to sanitize them, just put them in the bottle as is, they were a little more money then the other corks, and I have not had any problems with them other then they just dont last.
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    adding sorbate

    Thanks Wade I appreciate the prompt reply
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    adding sorbate

    Tom The kit is a europa vina, sold by costco, the kit contained bentonite, which was added at the beginning, after it was degassed the metabisulphite was added, then the kieselsol, and the chitosan, was added to clarify the wine, my question is in order to let it age for a 1 year period should...
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    adding sorbate

    I bought a kit from costco that was a twinn pack, one was a cabernet sav, and the other was a merlot., I made the cab sav and bottled 9 bottles, the rest went in to a 3 gallon, and a 1 gallon carboy, to bulk age. From the information I have found, they say you can age cab sav for a long time...
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    Blending wines

    Steve If I understand you properly, you are saying I can take 2 red wines, ie valpolicella, and cabernet sauvignon, and mix them together, or a primo rossa, and a merlot, untill you have found a satisfing taste, and bottle it, or are there certain wines that would complement each other?
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    Blending wines

    I just started making kit wines a few months ago and am so addicted to this that, I spend every spare moment I have reading, and searching, for information on makeing fruit, wines and juice, wines. I was reading an article on the net, and it stated, that you can blend different wines together...
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    Regarding Fermentation

    Tyler If you want to male cheap wine making a kit is cheaper, then buying it from a liquor outlet. As far as SAFE goes if you follow directions, and dont alter the directions, it will be SAFE. As far as quick goes there is only one magical ingredient when it comes to making wine, and...
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    adding sulphites

    Wade If I add k-meta in powder form how much of that is equivilent to 1 camden tablet?
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    adding sulphites

    I started a wine from raspberry frozen concentrate 2 weeks ago, it is a one gallon batch, I added surgar, pectic enzyme, acid blend, 1 oz of grape concentrate, yeast nutrient, and yeast, but after reading some threads on this forum, all the recipies call for cambden tablets, I did not add any to...
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    Bad Odour from wine kit

    Steve I got home from work and took a SG test on it, and it is at 0.998 I started this kit on friday march 13, maybe thats why it smells the instructions state that you should leave it for 7 days before racking it to a carboy, and the SG should be less than 1,010, now I know it is only 5 days...
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    Bad Odour from wine kit

    Steve I am at work right now cant take a SG reading right now, but the smell is kind of sour to me, and this presently, will be my 5th kit that I am making, all the others had a very nice fruity smell to them.
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    Bad Odour from wine kit

    I came home from work yesterday went down stairs to my fermenting room, which is about 68 degrees and was greeted with a foul odor coming from my wine kit, that was fermenting in my primary, it is a niagra mist black cherry pinot noir it has been fermenting for 5 days now and the air lock has...
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    Ageing Wine

    Allie Thanks for sharing that website with me, I appreciate the kind thought and some day, when I have some extra time on my hands, I will try it out thanks again.
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    Ageing Wine

    Woodbee Iam not really sure what kind of cherries they are, when I was in costco the other day I seen they had bags of frozen cherries, with the stones removed, I did not have a recipie handy at the time so I did not buy any, so I am looking for a recipie on the net, if I can find one I will...
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    Ageing Wine

    Wade thanks for the info I think I will pick up the K-meta next time I get to the city, just because I am getting enough sodium in my diet as well. I went into your website for the first time, and was delighted to see that you have some intresting recipies. I would like to make a cherry wine and...
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