The VR Reisling kit produces a dry wine. You can finish the kit and
add sugar after the last step. You will already have stabilized the
wine and it should not ferment any more.


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:14:16 -0400, "Michael E. Carey"
> wrote:

>All,
>
>I just bottled my second batch of kit wine. Both so far have been dry reds.
>I wanted to do a wine that I could give to folks that have been giving me
>bottles. A lot of those bottles have been reisling so I thought I would try
>some for myself. I find it quite sweet and not really to my liking.
>Anyway, I bought a BK kit and am going to start it this evening. I read
>through the directions and was a little supprised. I expected that I would
>need to stop the fermentation early in order to obtain the sweetness
>inherent in this wine. Instead, the instructions read much like the dry
>reds I have done. Looks like you pretty much let the fermentation run to
>completeness. Also, there does not appear to be packet that will add
>sweetness later. What am I missing here? Will this turn out sweet like
>many commercial reislings?
>
>Thanks,
>Michael
>