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retaste: Black Iris Foch Syrah 2022-23 wild blackberries, wild black cherries (pitted), dried elderberries, Sheridan Syrah (repair job), homegrown organic Marechal Foch Appearance - inky purple, slight fizz Smell - complex, cherries overpower the Syrah nose and work well with the Foch...

Retaste: Colour: purple ink Smell: coffee, cocoa, black licorice, five spice, plums, blackberries Tannin: high but fine with skin tannins in the aftertaste. This should age for a long time. Acid: good, matches the tannin Flavour: intense, rich, balanced, needs lots of time e.g. 5+ years to...

retaste: Appearance - deep purple red Smell - good fragrant nose - licorice, chocolate, elderberries, blueberries, black cherries, sweet oak (vanilla from medium toast American oak cubes) Tannin - perfect Acid - slightly high but perfect for a wine to age. I have 8 left. Flavour - rich...

congratulations! Grenache may = strawberry.

Retaste: Here are my comments: Appearance - clear yellow Smell - good intense smell especially from the honey and russets. no sulphite smell. Tannin - slightly high from the Russets and the oak plus honey which should help it age Acid - good from the Russets and the citric acid I added to...

No H2O2 is not H2O water

only the oxygen that reacts with SO2. Not all of the available oxygen necessarily reacts. Nitrogen eliminates the oxygen reactions.

SO2 + H2O = H2SO3 2H2SO3 + O2 = 2H2SO4 2SO2 + 2H2O + O2 = 2H2SO4

no oxygen. Won't work. If you want compressed gas use nitrogen

a retaste: Apple Edelzwicker 2021-2022 This is homegrown organic apple juice from ground and pressed apples (russet, king, cox) mixed with homegrown organic grape skins and 1st run juice sediment with pectic enzyme and re-pressed (includes Siegerrebe, Ortega, Reichensteiner and Madeleine...

Apple Edelzwicker 2021-2022 This is homegrown organic apple juice from ground and pressed apples (russet, king, cox) mixed with homegrown organic grape skins and 1st run juice sediment with pectic enzyme and re-pressed (includes Siegerrebe, Ortega, Reichensteiner and Madeleine Angevine). Here...

use it in the winter/early spring before bud break and on fruit trees and berry plants e.g. raspberries with dormant oil (kill insect eggs). Lime is hard on the leaves in the summer. I use kumulus S (powdered sulphur) with potassium bicarbonate to control powder mildew after bud break every 2...

sprayed my two sweet cherry trees with bacillus thuringiensis to kill white maggots that can ruin the fruit. Their eggs are laid in the cherry blossoms by moths and can be killed when they hatch.

good luck. You obviously love your vines and it shows.

Black Iris Foch Syrah 2023 Appearance - clear, inky purple, very slightly petillant (no idea why but it dies down in the glass) Smell - really good smell from the blackberries, wild cherries and dried elderberries blended into homegrown Foch fermented on 71B plus natural malolactic with a...