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I have made strawberry wine with some cheap supermarket - on the cusp ones. To make them up to sufficient quantity I have added some overripe nectarines I have got at the same time. Turned out wonderfully aromatic with hint of strawberry - however with strawberries being so delicate the wine...

My BlackBerry and BB+elderberry wine from august last year is still sitting in the hall in brown demijohns wrapped in bin bags after last racking and clearing (coldest and darkest part of the house). I have bottled couple of the demijohns of it about a month ago leaving the rest to just sit and...

Started my first rhubarb wine for this year. Been picking and freezing from early summer and finally got round to making it. 11l demijohn. about 3kg+ rhubarb cut up and frozen (did not weigh it but had to use two 5l buckets for getting the juice out with sugar) 3kg sugar 4 brown bananas 2l Apple...

I have used green tea now in all my whites and it I am now using green tea in all my whites, it leaves it nice and pale and gives enough tannin and is a bit mellower then black tea. I did ad 150g more sugar than usual - I think it was towards 900g - depends how many tins you used :) - I did...

Oh sorry, did not get to the site till today. The green tea worked great- would recommend, now only using green tea for whites

I made lovely white using either pears in grape juice or peach halves in grape juice (tinned) - easier to get hold of :) Lidl do big tins of peach halves in grape juice.

My in-laws asked for another batch :). I really like it, it gets better after couple of weeks in bottle. I have just finished one I made in august and it was even better - it is an early drinker but couple of weeks make difference. I would compare it to a nice table rose when chilled. As...

It’s absolutely wonderful! About 70 percent blackberry to 30 elder, but done some straight blackberry and also blackberry and blackcurrant ... all great and all lovely reds. Had so many blackberries this year.. but did not bother with jam..... who wants jam :)

I did not bother this time... have done every other racking but not this time. I don’t recon it’s going to hang around long :) I did bother with rhubarb one as that one is going to be stored for a while but this one is good now so will probably not make it into the new year...

Few more demijohns in different ratios of blackberry and elder and blackcurrant being left alone... as don’t have any suitable bottles yet :)

Fruit of my labour :) blackberry and elderberry wine :) done end of summer this year and cleared and all on its own. Bottled today but been left with a big glass ;) yum, even this young it’s excellent! Will be doing it again

I hoped that I would have brewed enough during summer months :) but I have now only country wines left ageing in bottles and demis (and don’t want to touch those till next year) so I do have to start with some wows again :) glad to hear bubble wrap method works. 👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you :) bubble wrapped it (Hm hopefully that will work)

Is it too cold to make wine? Even in kitchen is max 20 degrees :) ... in laws have run out of rose :)

Sounds nice :) will try for sure

I run out of DJs too. So froze a bunch :) so supply for when the DJs are free 😜

Oh just a note. Leave the pineapple for few weeks after bottling :) same with any supermarket juice wines - they are early drinkers but absolutely benefit with few weeks in bottle :)

Pineapple juice - cheapest is Aldi (59p) per litre of 100%juice. Or Lidl pineapple is good also (I have downloaded app for Lidl plus and it gives 5off 25 plus 25pecent of juice...) I would go with beaverdale kits - not much more than cheaper ones but much better- all juice and no extra sugar...

When I started making wine I got starter kit from bigger jugs that consisted of all the necessary items and two 5l bucket including 6bottle kit :) - and then got few demijohns as well for the supermarket juice wines. The buckets are now used for primary fermentation of fruit in straining bag and...

With red kits I would recommend beaverdale - Nebbiolo is rather nice or the merlot. It’s about £12 for 6bottle kit so not too much more then cheaper ones round £10 but definitely better taste :)