kaiser423

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I have been entertaining the idea of making wine, and was thinking about making a wine once I have decided if we're going to move in the next 6 months or so.

But those better bottles were staring me in the face, so I ponied up my last Austin Homebrew gift certificate, and bought a Chilean Malbec kit. Simple, easy, and not too expensive for when I screw it up.

I'm pumped



God, if this takes off like beer brewing I am screwed.

tom777

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I'm with you on that...
I'm just really getting into wine making also. Did a couple batches in '08, but none last year. Now I have 4 batches going.. 3 of them in new better bottles

kaiser423

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Kits? From grapes? What's the story here?!? There doesn't seem to be a lot of talk on this board about what people are making.

I'm definitely going to hop online and get the Dec/Jan copy of winemaker magazine that does a review of all the different kits.

For now I'm just hoping that my Chilean Malbec turns out to be similar/better than the $3 Chilean Malbec that I can get at Trader Joe's. Do a side by side, and if it's not better I'm really going to have to think more about the wine side of this hobby.

CrankyOldLibrarian

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That Winemaker issue is already out (at least we have it at the library that I work at).

Right now, I have several different wines aging: one kit (orange chocolate port), 2 fruit wines (mixed berry & strawberry), 3 wines from fresh grape juice from the Chilean harvest (mixed grape, cab, & malbec), & and one share of malbec from pressed grapes that was made at PTN house last may