2nd Wine kit in the bottle.

[Dieseljockey]

I've only ever done one wine kit ...it was a Piesporter, this was last year..I've got to confess I was not expecting great things from it...the first bottle or two left you a little wanting...but after a winter in the outhouse it's turned out to be a bloody good drink...so I've gone and got another box of grape juice from my local HB shop...

This time I'm having a go at a...Beaverdale Gewurztraminer
I can see another one coming on :party:

 

[abeyptfc]

I've only ever done one wine kit ...it was a Piesporter, this was last year..I've got to confess I was not expecting great things from it...the first bottle or two left you a little wanting...but after a winter in the outhouse it's turned out to be a bloody good drink...so I've gone and got another box of grape juice from my local HB shop...

This time I'm having a go at a...Beaverdale Gewurztraminer
I can see another one coming on :party:

nice one DJ, Ive bottled 2 wine kits so far(6 bottle kits), california connoisseur cabernet sauvignon and pinot grigio, they've been bottled for a month, i read somewhere its best to leave them 2 months minimum before trying. I've got a belvino 30 bottle kit at the mo, apparently meant to be ready to bottle in a week, i think i had a problem with my temp as the gravity should be down under .995 after a week but its stuck at 1020 after 10 days, added some more wine yeast and gave it a gentle stir, will check later today. got 2 solomon grundy 6 bottle kits to try aswell sometime.

 

[Dieseljockey]

:thumb:
Mike at the LHB shop said the same about leaving them for a few weeks or months...It's like that with the beer we brew...we all know it....but you have to sample it..."don't you" :lol: quite frankly I was amazed how much better it got with time ...there's no turning back for me now..onwards & upwards.

 

[rozza2010]

I did a Solomon Grundy peach white wine in July. I gave a bottle to a work friend and his mrs. They have only just got round to drinking it.. Said it was the best wine have ever had.. And they don't like white wine.

Unfortunatly I drank them after a month or 2 but were really nice then.

 

[gsidford]

Mike at the LHB shop said the same about leaving them for a few weeks or months...

Don't let him get you tasting his wine !!!!! Dangerous pursuit .... last time I went in I was so impressed with his New Zealand Pinot Noir that I came out with a box and it is merrily bubbling away beside my desk. Mind you it was a cracking wine at 6 weeks old.

 

[abeyptfc]

dunno if you guys have done the belvino wine kit before but starting off it didnt look it was going to be very good, its just a packet of dried fruit that u add to the water, no grape juice or anything, it does smell really nice though. will need to rack off to a secondary fv and add stabiliser and all that jazz.

 

[Endadmcc]

I did a white and a red Belvino was not expecting much when i saw the ingriedents but after bottling and leaving for a month or two they where not bad at all.

 

[Dieseljockey]

Mick at the LHB shop said the same about leaving them for a few weeks or months...

Don't let him get you tasting his wine !!!!! Dangerous pursuit .... last time I went in I was so impressed with his New Zealand Pinot Noir that I came out with a box and it is merrily bubbling away beside my desk. Mind you it was a cracking wine at 6 weeks old.

He's a good lad...been in the same shop for years..he was so helpful when I started years back....in fact it was Mick that suggested the Piesportor for a change of brews.
We'll have to see how this one turns out.. :pray: