Kicked off a Super Tuscan Wine Last Week...

[tbern]

looks very interesting and fun to do!

 

[jcam222]

Oh- jcam222 I am saving all the charcoal toasted oak buttons from the wine to add to my next fermented hot sauce. They say the charcoal really amps the flavor creation up big time so I'm gonna give it a go and try it.....

I will be interested in the outcome for sure.

 

[Burlymanchef]

Brings back some good memories. I should have gone the kit route first as I had wine making on my mind 15 years ago. Bought the electric grape crusher, big press and went all in for 2 years. First year in 700 pounds, crushed and fermented with no yeast just from the air.. Was in 3 food grade garbage cans with a wood paddle to punch everyday... Fruit flys on top of the towels covering was unreal as they were trying to get to it.. Needless to say I have had great memories bringing that purple haze on duck hunting trips and serving it at oyster shucking get togethers. I bottled it in 1 gallon glass jugs... no oak at that time and came in at 17%.. My brethren did not listen to me on potency, and more than I can count on one hand fell on their knees releasing the purple haze that they consumed.. OF Course blamed it on the oysters. I think I will buy your suggested kit and start small as I do enjoy good reds. Thanks for creating this post. Peace out

 

[noboundaries]

Fun read! Looking forward to the results.

My Italian grandfather made wine from grapes, which inspired my dad to make wine from kits and concentrates. Both dad and grandpa used gallon jugs. I was really popular at Uni (drinking age 18 at the time in TN) because I always had gallons of red wine in my closet.

One of my HS science projects was making wine out of Welch's grape juice, bread yeast, and water. One of my daughters has an Italian FIL who makes wine from grapes he buys by the half-ton, mostly reds, but he's dabbled in whites. Super Tuscan is one of my absolute favorites. Great first pick!

 

[zwiller]

With your family and sausage skills, you're gonna be hooked for sure. Long time brewer and judge but have not made wine yet. HUGE wine producing area here. Everywhere here they sell pressed juice pretty reasonable. Parents have niagara grapes.

My homemade wine story. One hot summer day when I was like twelev I see 2 liter of Coke in the basement fridge. I proceed to guzzle some straight from the bottle only to find out a few seconds later it was homemade wine.

 

[indaswamp]

Today the S.G. stabilized at 0.992 for 4 days so it was time for the second racking, kill the yeast, and start aging/clarifying.

Got the Carboy full of wine up onto a milk crate so we could siphon to a fresh clean carboy.

The stuff we will be adding...

And here is a funny tool my Uncle made as a joke. It is a 2"x4"; self explanatory...

Transferring...

And now we wait for the magic to happen. We bottle on March 22nd...

 

[indaswamp]

Cleaning wine casings today (wine bottles) in preparation for bottling mid next week. My Uncle has sampled the wine and it is smooth and really good! can't wait to taste it and even more looking forward to it after it has aged a bit.