Sassy Homemade Wine – The Fun Finishing Touches
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Sassy Homemade Wine – The Fun Finishing Touches

Over the years as I’ve expanded my experimentation and varieties of winemaking, I’ve also fine tuned the finishing process.  For me.  When I start new batches of wine, during the fermentation process – or sometimes I’ll wait until the bulk aging time frame – I’ll order bottles, corks, shrink caps and make sure I have…

Sassy Homemade Wine – Bottling Wine Can Be Fun
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Sassy Homemade Wine – Bottling Wine Can Be Fun

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about Winemaking – 12 weeks, to be exact.   Winemaking requires a lot of patience, especially during the part in between the final fermentation and racking to bottling.  Rather than bottle sooner and have the wine age in their individual bottles, I prefer to bulk-age the wine before bottling so…

Sassy Homemade Wine – The Wine Kit, Part Two and more!
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Sassy Homemade Wine – The Wine Kit, Part Two and more!

Last week was the start to the Kit Wine, Spanish Tempranillo: Believe it or not, Step Two is even easier than Step One.  The Primary Fermentation went off without a hitch, I checked the SG levels and since it was hovering around 1.010, it was time to ‘rack’ the wine from the bucket to a…

Sassy Homemade Wine – The Wine Kit, Step One
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Sassy Homemade Wine – The Wine Kit, Step One

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Kit Wine…well, this week the moment you’ve been waiting for… Today we’re going to make the Spanish Tempranillo: The beauty of Kit Wine is that it’s easy, and most of them contain everything you need. Like the ‘bladder’ full of the premium crushed grape juice: The yeast,…