Recent content by Mandaree

Thanks for all the suggestions. They do look a lot like the cross! I asked the guy to bring me some leaves so I can compare. The only thing is mine are sweet. The sugar and avid were okay without anything. I decided to follow the yeast choice--actually that is what I had thought I would use :)...

And here is the juice.

Here are the grapes

Well we started our first wine two weeks ago, a plum that is in secondary at the moment. My husband was telling his co-worker about it and the next day the guy brought a us 50 lbs of grapes and said they were going to be bird food unless we made wine with them. But no one knows what kind they...

Well I have nothing useful to add because I am brand new. I pitched yeast on my first wine (plum) two days ago. Prior to that all we have done is soda pop and stuff like kombucha. HOWEVER the late peaches are ripe here and I have a boatload of peaches so I would love to make a melomel. So I...