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Montrachet is a good culture, as far as flavor goes--it was the first culture we used on pear. But you'll see how harsh the acid is with Montrachet on SOME pears and it can take a good 2 years in the bottle for that acid to mellow out. That's why we moved to 71B for pear made from Bartllets.

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As I said--it depends where the brix was adjusted to and what culture you're using so that you don't exceed the potential alcohol content for the culture. I don't think any of those details were posted. If this is early stage of the ferment and the brix is not an issue, then go for it...

Topping up with concentrate which contains sugar is not a good idea because of the inability to use sorbate right now. And more sugar could get the alcohol content too high and kill the culture, depending on which culture you used. Merlot is not a good idea if it's been MLF'd. The best way...

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I'm glad you liked the pear the way we make it!!!!! And I agree--no water!! Well, it's been a BUSY summer. AND I had a few computer issues that took me off-line for a while. When you have a big piece of property to maintain, and dead ash trees falling everywhere-----well, the summer just...

The fermentation, along with the pectinase, will break the fruit down to nothing. When we make pear wine, all we do is cut the pears and bag them. The ferment and pectinase break it all down. It's nice to have a fruit crusher for pears or apples, but the way you're doing it works too. 71B...

The best thing to do is to bag the fruit using paint straining bags that you can buy at Home Depot,etc. That way, you'll contain all the chunks. You don't want to just remove them because all that pulp has a lot of flavor to add to the resulting wine. Trying to grind them all up, as an...

Adding more tannin to your wine will have the effect of helping clarity. Many wines that refuse to clear are low on tannin. That's why ya all love Super Kleer so much----that first packet has,largely, nothing but tannin in it.

Oaked concord is very good. We use French medium toast, cubes or staves. We also like making vanilla/concord using our own vanilla extract and anise concord using star anise.

Did you use nutrient? A fruit wine shouldn't take that long to complete unless you're doing a cool ferment. Lack of nutrient results in a slow and sluggish ferment and you run the risk of H2S production. You should use a nutrient program where you split the entire nutrient dose, needed for...

Don't add nutrient----the yeast can no longer assimilate the nitrogen, and you can set yourself up for spoilage organisms to use the nutrient.

We like our cranberry around 3.4 PH. Because they are so acidic, we use water to bring the PH to 2.9 or 3.0 and the use calcium carbonate to bring it up the rest of the way.

Our carboys of concord are always coated with the crystals. After bulk aging and racking of sediment, they are no longer there.

Tannin is always a good idea as it aides in clearing and helps stabilize color.

spunk---Well, as you probably know, we don't use recipes. What we do with our cherry is do the ferment with no water. To figure out the chemical additions, we consider 10 pounds per gallon, then trim that back a tad so you're not over-dosing on sulphite, etc. We like Montrachet yeast on the...

You're gonna want to bulk age for 1 year.

I think FAR too much attention is being paid to stirring an MLF in a tank, let alone running it thru a pump!!! You do not have to stir it. The MLF will complete fine on its own without stirring. My advice is to just leave it alone.

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