Introduce Yourselves here

[waggoner]

Hi Joel.

Welcome to the forum..i'm fairly new to wine making myself,,but there's a great bunch of folks here,,so i'm sure your questions will be answered..

[joelw94]

Hi everyone,

my name is Joel, I'm originally from Braintree in Essex but having been living in New Zealand for nearly three years. I got into brewing in October last year when my wife bought me a starter kit for my birthday. I've now brewed 4 beers, and am loving homebrew beer!

I decided to make cider from store bought apple juice a few months ago and bought a some wine equipment. I then discovered this website and thought I'd give some simple winemaking a go. However my plan to make wine number 1 got hijacked by a large bag of free feijoas (a really aromatic fruit from South America that grows well here) and made feijoa wine. This is racked and clearing now and I just got a wine number 1 on the go (grape and apple as per original recipe) to help keep me from drinking the feijoa wine before the end of the year! Also bought the juices for a wine number 2 to start soon. Unfortunately I have limited space as equipment is very expensive here. I also want to try making a nice full bodied red wine kit but finding a good 1 gallon kit here to try it out is impossible, they only stock the 5 gallon kits but I'll keep looking.

Thank you for a great forum and set of tutorials, I'm gonna have lots of fun making wines.

[lockwood1956]

I would really have liked to have gone to the grapefest but I doubt I will be able to.

you dont need to decide till near the event

we have people travelling up from darn sarf...so maybe you could car share?

regards
bob

[goldseal]

Hi Ashley,

Welcome aboard (and make sure you harvest those elderberries and get some Elderberry Port on the go this year )

[Bertie]

Hi

Hi,

I am Ashley and I have just found this site after spending months reading winepress.us and winemakers mag. I am really happy as they are so USA based and I am from England (North Kent). I am a 'mature-ish' uni student and have been fermenting stuff for quite a few years now. I started off with cider, apple wine, medler wine, elderflower wine/fizzy (have never used the berrys yet, but we have hundreds of elder bushes where i live) and make lots of fruit spirts (sloe gin etc.). What I have going at the moment: apple port (aging), Mead (aging/clearing), red wine from neighbours grapes (aging).

Anyway I have just planted 27 vines (4x bachus, 4x solaris, 4 x pinotnoir (clone 1804 and 777) and a selection of 4 year old wine vines, trans planted from my neighbour (who has moved).

I would love lots of help and advise and would really like to help people havesting etc (in exchange for stealing their knowledge.....maybe even a buy few grapes to learn with till mine are ready). I would really have liked to have gone to the grapefest but I doubt I will be able to.

Thanks

[Runningwolf]

Hello from Lake Erie

Hello, I have been making wine for a few years now mainly from kits and juice. I just discovered this forum the other day and I am always looking for new idea's from friends far and near. I am on the South Side of Lake Erie in Erie, PA, USA. I hope to learn some new tricks and respond to others when ever possible. Below is a list of what I Have made to date:
Primary
Island Mist Cranberry Melbec
5 Gal Maple Syrup
Carboys
6 gal Chilean Carmenere
6 gal Chilean Malbec
6 gal Chilean Red Zinfandel
6 gal Chilean Muscato
6 gal Chilean Pinot grigio
6 gal Gewürztraminer 5B
6 gal Riesling 5B
7 gal Candy Cane
6 gal Niagara
5 gal Plum
6 gal fredonia
7 gal Blackberry/Isabella
7 gal Labrusca

Made and Bottled
From Juice:
- Late Harvest Vignoles w/ chocolate
- Late Harvest Vignoles
- cherry/chocolate
- cherry chocolate/almonds
-Catawba
-Vignoles
-Tall Ships (Niagara 80% & Cayuga 20%)
-Cayuga with 20% Niagara blend
-Meghans Vista (Concord 2/3 & Dimond 1/3)
-Steuben
-Diamond
-Traminette
-Sweet Harvest Blend (Niagara/Concord 50/50)
-Isabella
-Vidal x3
-Raspberry Blush x2
-Rhubarb x2
-Rhubarb Strawberry
-Strawberry
-Blackberry Isabella
-Niagara x2
-Cranberry
-Mystic Sky (Niagara/Cranberry Blend) x2
-Vidal Ice Wine
_Vidal Ice Wine with chocolate blend

-Skeeter Pee
-Skeeter Pee with Raspberry/Apple concentrate
-Apple/Jalapeno Wine
-Country Apple from Cider

RJS Cru Select
- German Riesling Traminer
- Italian Chianti Riserva
Orchard Breezin:
-CranApple Chardonnay
-Sangria w/Seville Orange
-Watermelon White Merlot
-Acai Raspberry Cabernet Sauvignon
-Calypso Bianco
-Pomegranate Wildberry Zinfandel
-Raspberry White Zinfandel
-Green Apple Gewurztraminer
-Cranberry Chianti

- RJS Orange Chocolate Port


Wine Expert:
Island Mist –
-BlueBerry Pinot Noir
-Blackberry Cabernet
-Peach Apricot Chardonnay x 2
-Black Raspberry Merlot
-Wildberry Shiraz
-Green Apple Riesling
-Strawberry White Merlot
-Exotic Fruits White Zifandel
-Mango Citrus Symphony
-Kiwi Pear Sauvignon Blanc
-White Cranberry Pinot Gris x 2

Vintners Reserve-
-Merlot
-Liebfraumilch x 2
-Piesporter

Selection White Zinfandel
Selection Estate – Washington Columbia Valley Riesling x2
Selection Original – Piesporter
Selection Viognier
Selection Symphony
Selection Vieux Chateau Du Roi
Selection Original White Merlot x2
World Vineyard South African Chenin Blanc x2
World Vineyard – Washington Riesling
Limited Edition –
-New Zealand Gewürztraminer
-Australian Riesling
-Trio Blanca
-Pacific Quartet
-Pacifica White


Heron Bay:
Ultra Gewurztraminer
Ultra Cabernet Merlot
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[Rich]

Hi gmjh,

Welcome to this forum.

'sorted' your other thread out for you

Rich

[gmjh]

Hi there

Started wine brewing about 4 months ago. Some of you may recognise my name as I ask a load of probably annoying questions at the Home Wine and Beer Making Forum. Now I'm here to ask a new load of annoying questions (the kit making forum looks particulary interesting here) G

[Rich]

... good looking site. With PayPal, of which I am a great fan.

Duff's service is excellent,

Paypal I'm wary of.

[norman]

... DuffBeer

... good looking site. With PayPal, of which I am a great fan.

[goldseal]

contribute where I can, possibly mainly with sarcasm ...

You'll fit in well here, then

Only "real-world" place in town to get supplies now is the local ironmonger

Our very own Duffbeer runs http://hobbywinesupplies.co.uk/ - a good place to try if you are partial to a bit of mail-order.


Welcome aboard both.

[Cellar_Rat]

I drink mostly Red!

Cheers

Lawrence

Hi Lawrence,

Welcome aboard. I can see Holly and Emily enjoying making grape wine in September. A great family fun event. You will never look back.

Cheers,

Brian

[Rich]

Hi Norman! Welcome to wah.

[norman]

Where did the real world go?

Hello world ... Just put down two gallons with a mate. He asked me to help him to try out winemaking. I'm sure I've only been out of the loop for a year or two, but my old wine shop's closed and now they're only doing the market once a month. Only "real-world" place in town to get supplies now is the local ironmonger, who has a few bit's and bobs, mostly dusty. Thankfully the supermarket's still selling oranges and lemons or I'd just give up now ;-) Gripe over, for now :-) All the best to all you cyberspace brew-peeps ...

[lockwood1956]

I recognise from lurking that there are skills in this forum which greatly exceed mine. For which I thank you all.

Hi Lawrence,

welcome aboard, your skills will catch up in no time at all

I kind of like EmiHol, and they made it, so they can call it what they like.... i wonder what the teacher thought when they posed the "what did you do this weekend" question, and the answer came back...we made wine!

regards
Bob