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Thanks, I think I'm going to give it a try as it has very little bouquet.

Thanks ! :)

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Hi all, I have now 2 6-gal carboys , one with a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and one with a California Zinfandel. I care more about the wines having a lot of flavor. I don't like a lot of tannins. I tasted them and they are good but have no finish at all. Both are kits, both are now in the...

Hi , I would like my next wine to be an ice wine/sweet desert wine. Anybody has any kits you would like to recommend ? I'm thinking this one : http://www.southernhomebrew.com/rjspriicewim.html Thanks George

Thanks :)

Indeed, very misleading : http://www.winemakersdepot.com/Tutorial-on-Wine-Making-Lesson-4-of-6-W94.aspx So it's not malolactic, it's just more of the ethanol fermentation. But I guess, the question remains , am I ready to go to the next stage ( clarification and stabilization) or should I wait...

Thanks for all the help. I am using potassium metabisulphite now. So : 1. no washing after I sanitize, ok 2. And better to use something else then dish soap ( I do wash it a lot under hot water to get rid of it. My logic was that if it's good for the glasses I drink water from every day, it's...

I thought the secondary fermentation meant malolactic fermentation. Interesting. So it's just more of the same , sugar to ethanol but in a carboy ?

This is the Sauvignon Blanc kit : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ELJJS8/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 And in the instructions it says specifically Secondary Fermentation. And this is the Old Zin Kit : http://www.southernhomebrew.com/zinfandel3.html And I have the instructions in...

Hi, I am new to homebrewing wine and I don't really have anybody to learn from. I read that sanitation is important so my routine is : 1. Wash everything (with dish soap, that doesn't leave a flavor) 2. spray with sanitization liquid made from the powder the wine making kit had ( from a...

Hi , I am new at home-brewing and I'm making an Old Zin from a kit (6 gallons) wine. This is my second wine. Before this I made a Sauvignon Blanc from NZ. On the Sauvignon Blanc the 2ndary Malolactic fermentation was supposed to take about 3 weeks, but from the SG measurements and...