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Danelion Wine from: http://www.grapestomper.com/recdande3.html
(There should be many more recipe on web, do your own search)

Dandelion Wine #3
Makes about 4 gallons

Pick 2 to 3 gallons of fresh, yellow dandelion flower tops. Remove all green.
Slice up three oranges and two lemons and one pound of raisins.
Put all this into a primary fermentor and pour four gallons of boiling water over the flowers, raisins and fruit. Let the mixture cool overnight.
Add enough sugar to bring the SG to 1.090 to 1.100 and add one pack of wine yeast.
After 10 days strain out the flowers and fruits and siphon into a carboy and attach an airlock ferment 30 days.
Rack and put back into carboy for further fermenting.
After 90 days rack again and bottle when clear.

It is ready to drink in 6 months. This recipe is said to be good for rose petal wine in a similar manner.

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不用带, 可以自己找。不自酿的 可以去找 代酿, 人工费用 约35-50刀/一桶（一桶=11.5或23公升 = 14至30瓶）。

代酿@ http://sinoquebec.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=622118。 自己看电话簿 查地址+电话＃。
( The one in Lasalle moved to 1377 Dollard, no longer near Sami Fruit.  Same phone#, only few streets over. )

Post by yasiwu;2664566
美婆酿的迷魂汤真的不错的。
干吗不去？带一彪人马去。

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$14 off on all AR wine kits at Costco, August 30- Sept. 19, 2010.

Chardonnay, Merlot and Shiraz are available at all stores*.

Please check AR website for listing of Costco stores.  All outlets within Montreal island are listed.

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Initiation a la connaissance des vins:
cours pour adultes
Lundi, de 18h a 20 h
$100, 6 semaine

Centre Jean-Claude Malepart
2633 rue Ontario Est, 514-521-6884
http://www.cjcm.ca/

Inscriptions:  
- Mardi 7 septembre de 18h a 21h
- Mercredi 8 septembre de 18h a 21h

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Dimanche 12 décembre 14h-15:30

Conférence de Nick Hamilton : Vive le Vin!
Chroniqueur vins au journal Voir et actif dans le domaine depuis plus de trente ans, Nick Hamilton vous livrera ses coups de coeur a moins de 30$ et vous guidera a travers cet univers aussi vaste que passionnant.  L’occasion idéale de s’inspirer pour le temps des fêtes!

Maximum :  200 personnes
Inscription : obligatoire (activité est gratuit)

Bibliothèque du Mile End
5434, Avenue du Parc
Section Adultes :  514-872-2141
ville.montreal.qc.ca/plateau

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Tried the Borolo at one year, too harsh.  Had another bottle few months ago, nice light table wine.  Went well with BBQ chicken (the terrible ones from Supermarket)

We loved the Valpolicela Ripasso, ~$20 quality (at last I made a good one ), but friend preferred the Borolo.:mad:

Post by montrealpost;1547567
寻1人, 合买一桶自灌Borolo红葡萄酒。每人14瓶。一桶酒 =~$~92.71 = 28x750ml 瓶酒, +空的酒瓶@~$0.65。每人~$46.36+自己的空酒瓶, 或加酒瓶钱。

如果有3人, 合买2桶自灌酒, Borolo + 一个不同的口味(Valpolicella或Chianti; 有30多个味道选择)。一样每人14瓶。

需要预付金钱, 然后等4到6个星期灌酒瓶。如果您从未购买自灌酒或家里自酿酒, 我无法与您合买酒。Borolo 不适合第一次的买家 。请留下您的电话号码/eMail (和您是否有汽車) 或发我PM 。

我不是卖酒的, 请不要问我问题, 您自己查寻; 请不要害我的贴子给网管删除。谢谢!

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Costco AR sales, $14 off double pack, ending coming Sunday Nov. 7.  Only 3 varietals available, namely Merlot, Shiraz and Chardonnay(White).  Details @ http://argentiaridge.com/cgi-bin ... &category_id=71

Believe next sales will be Feb, 2011.  Most likely there will be one extra red, namely Chianti.

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Concentrates for table wine quality is ~10L @ $70+.  I recommended u to try the Costco AR Merlot, due to 你们说的~"性价比较高'.

AR的酒淡了点，可以:
1)  Make sure u put the complete Oak pack in,
2)  Make Shiraz (fuller body but may require aging), instead of Merlot (easy drinking wine),
3)  Your glass carboy fills 31.5 bottles (750ml).  Make ~29 bottles*, then [color="Red"]TOP UP WITH WINE instead of water after u stablize, or
4)  Buy other wine kits**.

*  Didn`t I tell u to measure your bucket?!  Fill your glass carboy with water to ~ 1 inch above shoulder.  Pour water into bucket, mark the line for next use.

**  The RJS-GC-Pinot Noir and RJS-GC-Cabernet Sauvignon that u liked is available at a store near u, few $ cheaper than Hwy20. Check store locator @ http://www.rjspagnols.com/en/storelocator.aspx.

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Ice wine is available in both fresh juice and wine kits.  

Fresh Juice is sold by the litre, whatever volume u want, not sure about minimum.  Requires PRE-order (只是因为葡萄农场怕卖不完), it is too late to order this year (delivery ~Dec/Jan).  Making ice wine from juice is IDENTICAL to making other grape wine from juice.  No stablizing required, no degassing required.  Only 1 extra siphoning and need to leave wine in glass carboy for total of ~8 months.  (U can bottle wine 1.5-3.5months, but less mellow and higher acidity due to no MFL)

Wine kits are all Ice STYLE wine, i.e. 假冰酒, over 50 to choose from.  Most kits are for making 15 litre, i.e. 1/2 standard carboy.  U can either buy 1/2 sized carboy to make 1 kit, or make 2 kits at the same time.  Mind u, 2 kits make 60x375ml bottles, Ice Wine bottles are extremely expensive.

Ice STYLE wine kits are all 6-week-kits, making process ~identical to Costco 4-week-kit.  Only difference is leave wine in carboy for 3 weeks instead of 1 after stabilizing.

The first 酒厂 we went last year should be the cheapest now.  I havn't tried but would say forget about their white ice (cheap is no good ), their red ice could be acceptable (based on limited observation :p ).

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Regular table wine grade, used to be 8L concentrates, ~$6X-$8X+7.5% GST + $corks$.  Now all "improved" version at 10L at similar price.

Costco wine kits, AR and PL, ~8L concentrates also, but ~5-15% lighter than above. Only ~$30/kit, corks/label/caps all included.  Hence, ~"性价比较高'.

There are tons of better wine kits, some over $200, all for 30x750ml.  There are in between kits of the above, ~$40-$5X.  Sales on the cheaper ones requires buying 8 kits at the same time.  I have enough kits for this year, taking a break next year.  May be we can buy kits together in 2012, we'll see . . . .