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Never heard of the magnet thing !!

At that price you have a premium kit so the wine should taste superb. If you can leave a couple of bottles aside, it would be interesting to see how they taste in comparison to the ones you drink straight away - the difference should be very noticeable.

Here's to happy drinking

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How long do you reckon they should be left?

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Why ask Raine.....because they wont last long :rofl:

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I know, I thought it was a gimmick at first but she was deadly serious :ohmy:

But good idea about leaving a couple aside :thumbup:

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Hi all,
I have been reading your thread and found it very interesting. I have just started making my own wine here in UK. Mainly elderberry, that I have picked myself. I have also been making Sloegin.
Just wondering if you can get Elderberries or Sloes over there in Canada? We are going to the Calgary area.

Doe's anybody make there own wine and pick their own ( and maybe grow it) fruit or is it mainly tinned stuff?

many thanks,
regards,
Carl:thumbup:

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Can you make raspberry wine? We grow a lot of them in our yard. Mrs_P makes raspberry jam and syrup and freezes what she doesn't use.

We also have a ton of crab apples this year if anyone in Calgary wants to pick their own and make crab apple jelly. ;)

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I have made all of these in the past - but none yet in Calgary. Basically, if the fruit is available, it will be possible to make it :thumbsup:

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At least 3 months, preferably 6, if you can take the pain, after a year it would taste very different (usually for the better) to how it tasted when first bottled.:eek:

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Steve

Yes you can.

You can make wine from virtually anything although, unless the basis for the wine has a high sugar content, it will need lots of sugar added to it to ensure it is alcoholic enough. Grape have an almost perfect balance of sugar to other "essential" constituents which is why they are so universally used to make wine.

Let me know if you wish me to send you a recipe so you can have a go :thumbup:

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I have just checked my receipt for my wine and discovered that it will not actually be ready until Nov 26th, that will be roughtly eight weeks until it will be ready, does this now make it an even nicer wine than first anticipated. :thumbsup:

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I made elderflower wine one year, it was amazing, not sure what i did wrong but it ended up slightly sparkling:confused:
I shared a few bottles with my mum on Christmas day and oh boy did we know about it, we both had bad heads until New Year.

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Just re bottle my Elderberry wine. Put it back into demijohn and will leave it until I want to drink it, then I have been told at about 3-4 weeks before you are going to drink it, bottle it into dark red wine bottles. So this is my next step.
I am a bit frustrated with my self, because I have left it to long to collect this years Elderberries, I went out last week and they were just on the turn.

I have been sampling my Sloegin and Sloe vodka I made last year, sampling it with friends and family and I tell you what, bloody great drink. Got them all out looking for and picking Sloes berries.

I was speaking to an game keeper last week, that has been making his own Sloegin and country wines for years. We actually met him while we were picking sloes from the same tree. He told me he had been picking from this actual tree for the past 30 years, brill:eek::D He did tell me he keeps his for anywhere between 3 and 4 years, before he starts to drink it:eek:, din't know if I can wait that long:o

Anybody know if you can get Sloes or Elderberries over in Canada please?

Thanks to all,
Carl:thumbup:

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Hi Carl

have a look at this, I found it "googling" it might help

http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/...cts/95-005.htm
I can't seem to find anything on sloes

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You bet :thumbsup:

The longer it is left after being stabilised, the better it will taste. Looking at the overall time is somewhat misleading as fermentation can take between 1 and 4 weeks depending on the quality of the kit and at what temperature it ferments at (generally the higher the temperature the quicker it will ferment. 18 degrees C is generally regarded as perfect)

HTH

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The costco kits aren't really that good, I used to make them and it didn't make any difference how long you left them, they still don't taste great. the best kits to buy are Grand Cru or Vintiners Reserve, if you put some bottles away for six months they are really excellent. I have had some put away for a year and they didn't taste much different from the ones that were hidden for 6 months. That is the problem in this house.....we can't keep it!