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I'm still relatively new with this. I was picking up some Chambourcin juice today at the local winery and they did not have any where the grapes had already been pressed. So they put some juice in the bucket, probably about 70% full, and topped it off with grapes right out of the bin. They had...

I've made a few kit wines and followed the directions without modification. Yesterday I was making a Pinot noir kit and decided to take a walk on the wild side. The OSG was 1.084. This looked like I would have an ABV of about 11%. I am not a big Pinot drinker, but I had thought that most Pinots...

I am relatively new to winemaking. I'm in the process of getting ready to bottle my first batch of red wines. I am making Norton wine. I understand that prior to bottling one should use approximately 1 Camden tablet crushed per gallon even if Camden has been used in prior rackings. I have two...

I am making port from a kit. The original instructions said to add the flavor pack (liqueur I am assuming along with the flavoring as it is a coffee port) at the beginning of the fermentation process. But they included an addendum saying to add it right before bottling. Do I now need to do...