Blending Homemade Wine – The Keys To Creating A Truly Unique Wine You Can Call Your Own

The home wine makers may want to blend wines in order to improve the taste of a particular wine. This is different than commercial wineries that blend wines in order to create consistency in the wines that they sell.

Question Of The Week: Do You Have A Quick Apple Cider Recipe?

Peter, one of my loyal wine making participants from the UK sent me this message today about getting a recipe for apple cider and I thought it would make for a great “Question of the Week”. Enjoy!

The Cherry Wine Project: Putting The “Squish” On Your Fruit

Alright … so the cherries are clean and have been stoned/pitted therefore it is now time to press the fruit so that we can separate the juice from the pulp.

Now, I can tell you that for my first few batches of fruit wine I wanted to go a bit on the “cheap” so I used a potato masher to press the fruit. While this certainly works I can tell you that it really sucks doing it as you have to put a lot of muscle into it and you are left thinking that there must be a better way of doing this … and there is!

Question Of The Week: My Wine Is Too Gassy - Help!

Question of the Week: “I recently bottled my wine after 28 days of secondary fermentation. The wine was clear of sediment and had a good underlining taste, however it was very gassy. Can you tell what I did wrong? Or should it be like this?”