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sidelock said:Commercial wine makers add sugar to speed up fermenting. Home makers don't.
Nobody ever told my Dad that... we had 200 fruit trees, mostly plum and apricot that mom made jelly from, then dad took the must and made about 20 gallons of wine each year. He made it super sweet, but no-one complained.