Wine Making

[Egloff]

Thanks Everyone, I'll open my eyes and look around at the rest of the site.

Winer
you are right there are some good kits with pure grape extract out there. What I'm not keen on is added sugar in grape wines, as is often found in kits.
I feel that added sugar should be confined to other types of wine, like black berry.
Also the UBrew wines tend to have short racking time. Usually about 1 month. I find that this leaves a yeasty flavour in the wines that I have tried. The use of high quality filters is supposed to help, but I don't find that it works as well as several rackings over the course of a year or so.
One other thing that worries me about most kit wines is that they ussually relie on a potasium sorbate kill to stop yeast activity. In my home brew I attempt to minimize chemical additives. Also most of the Ubrew shops in Vancouver BC use plastic instead of glass, cheaper lighter less breakage, but not right!

The fact is that if you were to pay your self minimum wage, even wine from a kit is about the same price as a nice cheap bottle of imported wine, that is often quite good.

It is in the process and the love of the art, not the cost in dollars.

Thanks every one.