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hi Wade E, I'm sooo gonna have a go at this one! I'm in NZ and it's not strawberry season yet, would frozen ones be ok? If so would quantities be the same? I'm not sure yet where to get choc essence, is this essential? and the strawberry Daquiri mix, i think we have these here, they are a...

Thanks so much, I just need to be patient!

Hey Dave I made cranberry wine recently from juice. I've just bottled it and I'm a little disapointed in it because it is rather thin . I added banana gravy and it improved slightly. In your opinion, will it improve much with age? How long? The colour in gorgeous though!!!

Thanks Luc, I'll relax and stick to the recipe as it is written. Will keep you all informed of progress. I believe ginger wine can take a wee while, a bit like my coffee wine. I love how you can get replies real fast on this forum, it rocks!!!

Ok, so I found my recipe in a really old CJJ Berry book. Bruised root ginger and tea and sugar with yeast and nutrients. however, there is no mention of pectolaise or campden tabs at the beginning.Should I do this as a matter of course? All the other wines I have made have started with campden...

Does anyone know where to get elderberries, fresh or frozen, in NZ for wine?

Haven't started the ginger wine yet coz I ran out of sugar. Going shopping today so should have it underway soon!. Looking forward to that one! Plum after that me thinks.....

I know!!!!!!!

Come to one of our wine club meetings ( Boozehag and me), our place(s) has got to be the best winery in NZ!!!!

Thanks so much!

thanks, i'll give it a go

Hi Pete, You take about a kilo of black, but not rotten, bananas, peel them and chop into short bits. cover with water and boil for about 15 minutes. the banana pieces should still be whole and not falling apart. then you strain and cool the liquid. Add the liquid (or 'gravy') to wine at any...

I bought some of this for clearing. however I suspect it may be quite old as I cant find any info about it and it has little white lumps floating around in it....should I use it? Actually I have had really great results using banana gravy so maybe I'll just stick to that

Thanks for that! See Boozehag, Tom started with only 3 members, we'll be fine. Anyway more wine for us if there's less people!!!!! I make enough noise for about 5 people, or at least that's what I'm told. I'm off to check my Kiwifruit wine YEEEEHAAAA! Winemaking rocks!

Tom, WaWa is just a silly nickname that I got as a very young child. Something to do with the way I said my name and it stuck. Nothing as exotic as a native American bird I'm afraid. The grand total of club members is 2, yep 2, Boozehag and Me. However there is another potential showing...

Hey, thanks for letting me join you lot! My good friend Boozehag is my informant and we've been making wine for a few months now, Boozehag a bit longer than me. we've started a club that meets whenever we want to try out our brews and troubleshoot etc. Loads of fun! I've just bottled Apple wine...