Greetings all
Just thought i would shere a story with you

i live in dryden wa . right above Whenatchee wa. they grow alot of fruit here so you can pick just about any wine you would want to make. Anyway a friend of mine wanted to make some cherry wine, ok i said my friend has six cherry
trees in the back yard 5 rainers 1 black so we picked 47# of mixed cherrys pited, then added to nylon bag and 9 gals water
sugar and all the other stuff turned the bag over every day when it stoped foming and th… Continue

Hi Scott:

New to this site and to wine making. I saw your video about degassing wine using a wine pump. I tried it last night and saw a lot of bubbles coming out of the carbouy. How often should this be done? Do I degas, leave it for a couple of weeks, and then try it again? What is a good indicator that the process is complete?

Thanks, Dianne

I want to know if I can use my juicer for making wine from grapes????

Hey Folks,

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 th… Continue

Does anyone have experience with making wine from meteor cherries? We have made wine from nanking and northwestern and has won awards for both. Any recipes to share????