uwhinesomommywines
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Hello everyone! My husband and I love wine...all types of wine...probably too much 
So, we figured why not start making it? So, one night we talked about it and a week later we have 3 different batches fermenting! I would say "jumping in with both feet..." might be an understatement!
At first we started with a wine-kit - a Cellar Craft Late Harvest Riesling - just so we could "get our feet wet". (Pardon all the foot references...we by no means insert our feet into our fermenters!) We just wanted to see if we'd even be able to follow the instructions. ...Mostly we were intimidated by the "chemistry" of it all - hydrometer readings and what-not. Then after seeing how "non-scary" it was, we said "what the heck" and started fermenting plums for what hopefully will be a plum wine -5 gallons (plums from my brother's tree) and a small batch (only 1 gallon) of peaches! I guess the worst that could happen is it is awful and we pour it down the drain! ...All lessons learned
We live in Western WA and have access to many beautiful crops of fresh fruit and are very excited about our new hobby! We want to do all sorts of wines - reds, whites, fruits - you name it, it's on our list! I'm hoping to get any answers I need and lots of great insight from other newbies and veterans on this forum.
Cheers! ~ Anne
So, we figured why not start making it? So, one night we talked about it and a week later we have 3 different batches fermenting! I would say "jumping in with both feet..." might be an understatement!At first we started with a wine-kit - a Cellar Craft Late Harvest Riesling - just so we could "get our feet wet". (Pardon all the foot references...we by no means insert our feet into our fermenters!) We just wanted to see if we'd even be able to follow the instructions. ...Mostly we were intimidated by the "chemistry" of it all - hydrometer readings and what-not. Then after seeing how "non-scary" it was, we said "what the heck" and started fermenting plums for what hopefully will be a plum wine -5 gallons (plums from my brother's tree) and a small batch (only 1 gallon) of peaches! I guess the worst that could happen is it is awful and we pour it down the drain! ...All lessons learned
We live in Western WA and have access to many beautiful crops of fresh fruit and are very excited about our new hobby! We want to do all sorts of wines - reds, whites, fruits - you name it, it's on our list! I'm hoping to get any answers I need and lots of great insight from other newbies and veterans on this forum.
Cheers! ~ Anne
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