Wine noob here. What to ferment in? Starter for yeast?

[passedpawn]

FYI, I never did make a bottling bucket (i.e., bucket with spigot at bottom). I went to my LHBS to get a spigot for the giant bucket that I used for primary fermentation of this wine, but he said that it's easy to bottle straight from the autosiphon.

So I got a bottling wand and connected it to the end of the auto-siphon tubing, and it was easy.

Corking was a blast. So easy.

 

[passedpawn]

BTW, I used #9 corks. They are a little thicker than #8 corks, and so they go in a lot tighter. With a floor corker, #9's are no problem. I imagine a hand corker gizmo might have some difficulty. Don't use one of those.

I had planned on using artificial corks, but in the end I went with the cheapest corks I could find and they seemed perfectly fine.

 

[passedpawn]

Well, it's darned tasty. On this forum, a picture like this might seem very common. But it's my first wine, so to me it's the most special thing in the world. Oops, it was...

 

[applescrap]

Man that wine sounds good. Awesome

 

[passedpawn]

I bought a cheaper cab kit to do a comparison. It's getting bottled this weekend. No skins in this new kit.