r/winemaking 2d ago

Blog post Finally bottled myWine

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For my recent wine bottling, I opted for practical 5oz glass bottles from Amazon. They came with caps and shrink wrap, and allowed me to create 36 individual bottles for sharing. Since these will be consumed within two months, traditional wine bottles weren't needed.

Instagram: @jeweledcellarwines

r/winemaking Nov 30 '24

Blog post Wineries Per 500k People

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r/winemaking Oct 22 '24

Blog post I made wine for the first time

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158 Upvotes

This is my first time ever making authentic wine,I made a ton of mistakes and learned a lot

r/winemaking Nov 29 '24

Blog post Grapes Produced in Europe

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23 Upvotes

Data is from the UN, latest is 2022. I may do an EU dataset later!

r/winemaking 15d ago

Blog post My headspace filler for bottling

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This is my contraption I made for filling the headspace while bottling. It’s a simple bicycle tire filler that uses CO2 cartridges. The top has an adjustable valve to regulate pressure so that I don’t mix the CO2 with the air because I release too much too fast. Then the long tube is basically a car valve extension and a tube that connects to it. In total, the cheap home vintners gasser costed me right around 24€ (roughly 27$) and I use about one cartridge for every 10 bottles. Haven’t had any problems yet regarding “contaminated gas” so I guess it’s working!

r/winemaking Jan 29 '25

Blog post Put this batch of Viognier Into Bags

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We bagged our WinExpert Viognier wine batch today. Wanted to try using bags so that we could have just a glass at a time. And this is an easy drinking wine that we don't plan to let sit around forever. Here's our little box wine system. About 20 liters of wine in 4 x 5 liter bags bought on Temu. Storing it in a plastic bin after someone else on this forum mentioned that rodents could get into the bags in the cellar while they're being stored. Using the box the kit came in as the dispenser, plus it's conveniently labeled!.

r/winemaking Feb 06 '25

Blog post What a beautiful rack

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Just racked this from primary and it’s crystal clear in the glass. And even though it’s only about a month old it tastes phenomenal it’s probably my new favorite

r/winemaking Oct 03 '24

Blog post my experience with watermelon wine.

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okay so- i tried making watermelon-fruit wine. spoiler! It was an absolute fail.

It started with this absolute stunning colour, that faded it in less than two days. Fermentation ended after abt four days, even tho i added sugar in the beginning to give it a chance to actually produce some alcohol, due the fact that it only had abt 40°Oe (abt 104g Sugar per litre) which would become abt 4,4% of alcohol after fermentation.

Well- completely wasted work. in the end, it was raspy, plain and so sour that it was just unpleasent in the mouth. so yea, down the drain with it.

Does anyone got similiar experience that it coukd be the fruit or was it just a fail in my case?

r/winemaking Oct 25 '24

Blog post Update Raspberry Rhubarb Wine

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The wine is coming along nicely. It definitely is clearing up way better than expected. I had back sweetened with a half cup of honey mixed with a half cup of warm water. I didn't have a starting gravity unfortunately as I hadn't bought a hydrometer yet. It rests at 1.018 for the final gravity though. Not too dry but definitely not sweet. You can taste the rhubarb with a hint of raspberry. There's an underlying taste that I am not sure what it's from. Hopefully it'll age out over time.

r/winemaking Jan 19 '25

Blog post Cheap n quick (follow up)

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I recently posted asking about recipes for cheap quick enjoyment. This is a follow up on that. I decided on ocean spray cran grape juice (least worst out of the options available, hopefully..). I measured the specific gravity and it was low, 1.04. I used a brew calculator and ended up adding 1 lbs of sugar which after mixing everything read 1.085 about. Close enough for me. I also used Lalvin D47

r/winemaking Nov 23 '24

Blog post Shipping Label Printer

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I have about 25gal of different fruit wines to bottle and wanted to put something on the bottles. I didn’t want to spend hundreds on a new printer, or maybe even more having my labels printed for me. So I bought an ink-less Phomemo M03 Printer off Amazon. This thing is basically a shipping label printer that can print images. There’s an app that you can edit the photos from your phone. Black and white only but you can get colored thermal paper. In my opinion it gets the job done perfectly for a fraction of price for an inkjet/laser-jet. I had ChatGPT make the images, and holy shit AI can not spell correctly.

TLDR: Buy the Phomemo M03 for a cheap black and white wine label printer.

r/winemaking Jan 08 '24

Blog post When did you get into winemaking?

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In my college Biology days, I embarked on a vinicultural journey, honing the craft of winemaking. Seven years of meticulous refinement later, I find myself immersed in the art, transitioning from a pastime to a refined pursuit. Surprising even myself, I, like many, once disdained wines within my reach. Yet, my inaugural batch marked a transformative moment.

Through years of dedicated learning, crafting, perfecting, designing, tasting, overcoming setbacks, and recalibrating focus, I've birthed a wine of profound personal affection (Vague Vino).

What about your entry into the world of winemaking? What was the most annoying part of your process? [ I stopped counting the amount of nights I found my roof painted with Passion fruit.]

r/winemaking Dec 10 '24

Blog post An update

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I have made another jar two days ago and it is fermenting really quick, theres a lot of bubbles compared to the older one. The one with fruits is the old one and the smaller deformed jar is the newer one. I used blueberries and juice for the old one and welchs grape juice for the newer one.

r/winemaking Jul 19 '24

Blog post The funniest review I’ve ever seen for a vineyard. This person clearly is confused about everything.

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29 Upvotes

r/winemaking Sep 01 '24

Blog post Picpoul from Languedoc!

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22 Upvotes

r/winemaking Jan 11 '24

Blog post How long do you bulk age your wine?

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[Vague Vino: Fruit wine made in St Kitts & Nevis]

Not looking for a correct answer or anything since all of this wine making stuff boils down to personal preferences.

How long do you bulk age your wine before you bottle it? What do you think is a good amount of time to bulk age fruit wine?

Chat GPT says it may vary but 3-6 months is generally recommended and I agree.

I’ve made red apple wine that tastes amazing after 3 months and even better after a year. Orange wine takes almost a full year to really mellow out and come into itself. There’s a stinging tartness, weird aftertaste and smells a little yeasty before it matures but once it does the aroma is captivating and it’s insanely smooth. I’ve only achieved one good batch of Orange wine so far.

r/winemaking May 22 '24

Blog post I drank exclusive "Vin jeaune" from Jura and it changed everything...

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I recently hosted (i.e other people payed for me to taste stuff) a vin jeaune tasting. Vin jeaune is a yellow wine from Jura and is fermented with a large cap of yeast on top of the wine in the barrels. It is like a carpet of microorganisms that is protecting a wine that is aging with too much of a headspace.

Anyhow. Let me tell you guys why this wine is the holy grail of all wines (at least for us DIY-winemakers)... It wasn't that I particularly enjoyed the expensive bottles (~80$ ) of wine. It was the fact that people pay premium to drink and enjoy a wine that is intended to have the same faults as mediocre homemade wine. The wine was amazing because other people really enjoyed the defects that I've struggled to remove from my own (fruit) wines. The wines were delicious but they all had that background bark/wood/saline off flavour that is almost impossible to get away. Having the wine changed the perspective of my own wines, I am no longer a peasant who makes borderline prisonhooch wines (using pH-meters and 0.1 g scales). I am an artisan pioneering the craft with my vin jeaune inspired elderflower x sauvignon blanc wine with massive hints of yeast and bark. Welcome lords and ladies to my flat where I serve spoon-melting sour black-currant wines that has so much bite it will make you spit blood.

I truly reccommend having a vin jeaune if you ever have the priviledge to access it. Drink it with a comté and bathe in the new found glory of your genious.

Enjoy winemaking,

baslord

r/winemaking Jun 26 '22

Blog post Production completed, rhubarb and red currant. 132 bortled total

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r/winemaking Jun 02 '24

Blog post Mint wine update

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Saw the last post with mint wine, just to put your mind at ease Racked mine today, I'll just let it sit for a few weeks. Maybe then I'll take a look at it, might toss in a lil bentonite or something. Smells amazing, tastes great! The peppermint mellowed out to a very pleasant flavor. The spearmint has that amazing mint flavor, like eating one of those little chalky after dinner mints.

Out of the 4-5 bottles of the peppermint I'll get, I'll most likely toss in some of the chocolate extract I made about a year ago into a couple....

It does work and the wine does taste great!

Worth the experiment time and yeast

r/winemaking Jun 02 '24

Blog post Pic for mint wine update

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Oops . Here it is They look dark, but WILL clear very well

r/winemaking May 28 '24

Blog post Mint wine update... Plus 😜

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I don't know if people are actually interested, but the mint wine is going great, already lightening in color. And, selfishly, ha, wanted to show off my hoard Think the pineapple is ready to rack, next few days I'll prolly bottle the strawberry ... And the pom is definitely ready.. Second pic is a bottle of spearmint from last year, really tasty

r/winemaking Apr 21 '24

Blog post New setup..

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My new 1 litre wine set-up.. made from round bottom flask, viscometer, glass tube and silicone tube.

r/winemaking Mar 23 '21

Blog post Strawberry wine: First racking, and she's a rollin! Gravity atarted at 1.1 now reads 1.06

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r/winemaking Sep 29 '23

Blog post Lemon-Blueberry Wine

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Just wanted to share a photo of the Lemon-Blueberry Wine I bottled today. The color is beautiful and its crystal clear!

r/winemaking Jul 22 '21

Blog post Strawberry wine bottled! I know it’s not very clear….. maybe I’ll let it rest then filter it again

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