Comments on: The Five Golden Rules for Making Your Own Wine http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/ How to Make Your Own Homemade Wine - Instructions, Videos, Tutorials Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:07:59 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Gajaraj http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-1958 Gajaraj Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:42:24 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-1958 Dear Mike, <br>After reading what you just sent me,You are not just a good wine making guide to me you are also a good human being, I now realize from your 5 golden rules and you attitude that it is my privilege to have made your acquaintance. Thanks for your giving attitude, you have just reaffirmed what I always held to be important in life. Thanks again. Gajaraj Dear Mike,
After reading what you just sent me,You are not just a good wine making guide to me you are also a good human being, I now realize from your 5 golden rules and you attitude that it is my privilege to have made your acquaintance. Thanks for your giving attitude, you have just reaffirmed what I always held to be important in life. Thanks again. Gajaraj

]]> By: ben hilliard http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-1862 ben hilliard Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:29:16 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-1862 Mike, I really love what you had to say here, but these all sound like rules for good living and not just good wine making. Wine making like any art comes from the soul and so if your house is in order there the product is sure to be a good one. I find good friends and good wine in the same place tend to breed philosophy, don't you agree. Thanks, Ben H. Mike,
I really love what you had to say here, but these all sound like rules for good living and not just good wine making. Wine making like any art comes from the soul and so if your house is in order there the product is sure to be a good one. I find good friends and good wine in the same place tend to breed philosophy, don’t you agree.

Thanks,
Ben H.

]]> By: Don Congleton http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-820 Don Congleton Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:39:01 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-820 Hi Mike, I am not a member of the inner circle but have perused your free wine makers guide and have started my first 5gal of apple wine. I made a batch many years ago and it turned out ok (we got drunk on it). I always wondered what it would be like, making good, powerful wine on a regular basis. Hi Mike, I am not a member of the inner circle but have perused your free wine makers guide and have started my first 5gal of apple wine. I made a batch many years ago and it turned out ok (we got drunk on it). I always wondered what it would be like, making good, powerful wine on a regular basis.

]]> By: H. S. IRANI http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-725 H. S. IRANI Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:45:09 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-725 Hello Mike, Your regular helpful tips are very informative and heartfelt. I am sure a lot of people have understood what is truly required to make a good wine. We also need to make some time for ourselves from our busy schedule and do the things that we have always been promising ourselves. The 5 tips you have provided are also the special bonds which make you different from the other wine makers out there. Keep up the good work. God is the one who ultimately rewards us. Hello Mike,

Your regular helpful tips are very informative and heartfelt. I am sure a lot of people have understood what is truly required to make a good wine.

We also need to make some time for ourselves from our busy schedule and do the things that we have always been promising ourselves. The 5 tips you have provided are also the special bonds which make you different from the other wine makers out there.

Keep up the good work. God is the one who ultimately rewards us.

]]> By: David Mosher http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-710 David Mosher Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:12:03 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-710 Hi Mike I am new to this (making fruit wine for 1 year) so please beeear with me. If you had a wine of 14 or 15 percent alcohol what is it in the wine that goes bad, is it the alcohol or the fruit base and how can this be prevented or improved to a longer lasting wine. I have enjoyed your many helpful articles. Dave Hi Mike
I am new to this (making fruit wine for 1 year) so please beeear with me.
If you had a wine of 14 or 15 percent alcohol what is it in the wine that goes bad, is it the alcohol or the fruit base and how can this be prevented or improved to a longer lasting wine.
I have enjoyed your many helpful articles.
Dave

]]> By: sanoj http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-597 sanoj Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:35:03 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-597 Hai Mike I think you are not only a good wine maker but also a good 'man' maker. All your five rules fit for me well. Thankyou for the general tips more than the wine tips. God bless you Sanoj Hai Mike

I think you are not only a good wine maker but also a good ‘man’ maker.

All your five rules fit for me well.

Thankyou for the general tips more than the wine tips.

God bless you

Sanoj

]]> By: Bill http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-458 Bill Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:01:23 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-458 I just signed up but I have been making homemade wine for about 10 years now. I beleave the more you know the better the wine and as you stated \"what goes around comes around, also do unto others as you would have them do unto you. so I make wine and drink wine and give wine. To all Happy wine making. I just signed up but I have been making homemade wine for about 10 years now. I beleave the more you know the better the wine and as you stated \"what goes around comes around, also do unto others as you would have them do unto you. so I make wine and drink wine and give wine. To all Happy wine making.

]]> By: miguel gutierrez http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-375 miguel gutierrez Wed, 27 May 2009 21:27:37 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-375 Hi, very nice rules the one best of all is give and do not expect to recv'd, but on the long run you'll get 101 times more. I' worked for the USDA. at Dvis,ca. we have so many grapes of all types and that's one of the reasons why I, have taken the path of wine making, it will be awesome to taste my own wine I,do not drink but I, think people will enjoy my wine. When I,was a kid I,leave on the coast and I, u's to enjoy the grapes that grown around there on tne sand have you ever taste them? there are a bit smaller than regular grapes but their flavor where great! so I, might be trying to bottle them. thanks, just an idea. I, have enjoyed your book! Hi, very nice rules the one best of all is give and do not expect to recv’d, but on the long run you’ll get 101 times more.
I’ worked for the USDA. at Dvis,ca. we have so many grapes of all types and that’s one of the reasons why I, have taken the path of wine making, it will be awesome to taste my own wine I,do not drink but I, think people will enjoy my wine.
When I,was a kid I,leave on the coast and I, u’s to enjoy the grapes that grown around there on tne sand have you ever taste them? there are a bit smaller than regular grapes but their flavor where great! so I, might be trying to bottle them.
thanks, just an idea.
I, have enjoyed your book!

]]> By: Ron Gould http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-56 Ron Gould Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:02:41 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-56 Actually, I feel the most important thing you kind of glossed over. I don't know about you, but I almost never learn from my successes, especially if I manage to get it right the first time. It isn't until something goes wrong and my curiosity is aroused that I slow down and really study what I di and am doing to discover where I got off-track. I feel that you have to give yourself permission to fail (or at least not totally succeed every time) to be able to take the risks of trying something new. As you pointed out, watching videos and reading recipes never created a single glass of wine. I jumped in there in a big way in 2008 and just put my fifth batch of wine into the secondary. I plan to get outside my comfort zone and enter some of my wines in contests and see what kind of feedback I get. Thanks for the website and the advice. --rg Actually, I feel the most important thing you kind of glossed over. I don’t know about you, but I almost never learn from my successes, especially if I manage to get it right the first time. It isn’t until something goes wrong and my curiosity is aroused that I slow down and really study what I di and am doing to discover where I got off-track. I feel that you have to give yourself permission to fail (or at least not totally succeed every time) to be able to take the risks of trying something new. As you pointed out, watching videos and reading recipes never created a single glass of wine. I jumped in there in a big way in 2008 and just put my fifth batch of wine into the secondary. I plan to get outside my comfort zone and enter some of my wines in contests and see what kind of feedback I get.

Thanks for the website and the advice.

–rg

]]> By: Ben Gritten, London http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/14/the-five-golden-rules-for-making-your-own-wine/#comment-55 Ben Gritten, London Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:25:15 +0000 http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/winemaking/?p=14#comment-55 Hi ya Mike, Belated happy new year and birthday! They normally say 'third time lucky'. I tried making rhubarb wine from my flourishing plants from my allotment last year, over here in London. I don't know if you have allotments over there (small areas of land local councils rent out to people to grow what they want on them. They are in very high demand over here with waiting lists being as long as ten years!), you may have something similar. The 'mix' stopped fermenting unusually fast (two-three weeks, compared to six weeks plus for my two previous attempts using home grown grapes). I thought this a bit odd and not bothering to check or indeed ask for advice, threw in more sugar and yeast! Another week or so went past and the fermentation ceased again. I thoroughly sterilised my bottles and carefully filtered the wine into each one, corking and 'capsulating' them almost immediately. I stored them horizontally on top of my kitchen cupboards and slowly, but surely, something started to happen, which I am guessing was a secondary fermentation. Nine of my 33 bottles (we do things small scale over here, compared with the US!) popped their corks, not just all over my kitchen, but over the homes of the (ex?!) friends I had given bottles to for christmas! The surviving bottles taste OK. Naturally very fizzy, with an alcohol content of 17%! Embarassing explosions aside, I see it as a learning curve... Next time I SHOULD seek out some advice when in doubt or things don't seem quite right (Step 3, Check information from someone knowledgeable that you can trust in the business). I don't know what wines I am going to produce this year, but I AM going to make TWO more batches, hopefully partially using grapes from my miniscule THREE vines from my allotment if we have a good summer over here, unlike last year! Perhaps someone could tell me if my random act of adding extra yeast/sugar is a no-no! I would like to end with a combination of two famous sayings: If at first you don't succeed (or anytime after!), try, try again.....practice makes perfect! Hi ya Mike,

Belated happy new year and birthday!

They normally say ‘third time lucky’.

I tried making rhubarb wine from my flourishing plants from my allotment last year, over here in London. I don’t know if you have allotments over there (small areas of land local councils rent out to people to grow what they want on them. They are in very high demand over here with waiting lists being as long as ten years!), you may have something similar.

The ‘mix’ stopped fermenting unusually fast (two-three weeks, compared to six weeks plus for my two previous attempts using home grown grapes). I thought this a bit odd and not bothering to check or indeed ask for advice, threw in more sugar and yeast! Another week or so went past and the fermentation ceased again. I thoroughly sterilised my bottles and carefully filtered the wine into each one, corking and ‘capsulating’ them almost immediately.

I stored them horizontally on top of my kitchen cupboards and slowly, but surely, something started to happen, which I am guessing was a secondary fermentation.

Nine of my 33 bottles (we do things small scale over here, compared with the US!) popped their corks, not just all over my kitchen, but over the homes of the (ex?!) friends
I had given bottles to for christmas!

The surviving bottles taste OK. Naturally very fizzy, with an alcohol content of 17%!
Embarassing explosions aside, I see it as a learning curve… Next time I SHOULD seek
out some advice when in doubt or things don’t seem quite right (Step 3, Check information from someone knowledgeable that you can trust in the business).

I don’t know what wines I am going to produce this year, but I AM going to make TWO more batches, hopefully partially using grapes from my miniscule THREE vines from my allotment if we have a good summer over here, unlike last year!

Perhaps someone could tell me if my random act of adding extra yeast/sugar is a no-no!

I would like to end with a combination of two famous sayings:

If at first you don’t succeed (or anytime after!), try, try again…..practice makes perfect!

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