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I've got "Techniques in Home Winemaking" by Daniel Pambianchi (there's one on eBay as I write for £6.49). It's a brilliant reference and his coverage of wine yeasts (about 75 varieties, their uses, alcohol tolerance, etc) is without equal. PS those notes on making white wine, I just noticed...

Thanks for comments. Here, attached, are my notes on making white wine from grapes, this was from an old homebrew forum that is no longer active, so acknowledgments to the original author (Lockwood1956). The reference to big funnel & concertina colander will have you foxed... it's just a note to...

Hi everyone, I think I've been making wine from kits (and hedgerow) for about 40 years and from imported grapes for about 12. But it's difficult to scan the market for kits: things are expensive and (imho) take at least 9-months to get to best quality. Can you help on pointing me in the...

Thanks for your thoughts. You've helped a lot. I have only been making wine from grapes for 10-12 years and until I read your message I thought tannin and tartrates were the same (duh!) so now I've googled and learnt (for shame) that they aren't. 'Tart' - that's the key, isn't it? The bitterness...

I know we wine aficionados are meant to have an encyclopaedic vocabulary, but 'how bitter?' is testing my limits. I'd say 'not huge' but just aware that it shouldn't be there (and it put Mrs InSadly off the whole brew - but she favours acidic NZ Sauv Bl). I think the right note is the idea of...

Many thanks for the thoughtful replies. I know bordeaux mixture is a common treatment which is CUSO4 & Ca(OH)2 (I use it on tomatoes), but I've never heard that it's a common step to wash grapes before de-stemming, does anybody else? Tannins should be quite low, because I pressed the grapes...

Hi all, any ideas what may have gone wrong? September 2021 I bought 50kg (~£66?) of Trebbiano grapes from the local fruit importer. The end result is pretty good, but has an uncharacteristic, bitter after-taste (imagine the pith of the skin of an orange). I want to have another go this year, any...