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Deer whipped our butt this year. We will have to get a fence before next year. In the meantime, we took what was left. We forecasted...

You were lucky. When the cows get out near my vineyard, even with an electric fence, I’m on the phone to the farm manager. Cattle are...

Another sad day in the vineyard yesterday. The deer seem to be eating the clusters through the netting. I’m seeing lots of half eaten...

Well, I’ll be picking our Syrah on Friday. Took a sample to our local lab - Brix 25.8, pH 3.28, TA .83. Assuming continued ripening the...

I checked my Marquette today… tested six grapes and they ranged from 21.0 to 23.8 Brix. The average was 22.1.

Average Brix is creeping up we are 24-26 range and the berries have softened Sept 8 remains the pick date A couple of days in the...

Some of my early mentors made wines "naturally". Grapes arrived by train from CA, were crushed and dumped into a barrel. Fermented and...

@winemaker81, regarding secondary storage, I've got maybe 30 bottles from a kit we used to make our wedding wine years ago...

I’m not the sharpest pencil in the box so I need this dumbed down … a lot. These are the nuggets I got from this study. BTW, I am not...

This video goes into good detail and is supported by scientific studies

The squirrels moved into our neighborhood about 10-15 years ago (I've been here for 30 yrs). The squirrels outcompeted/drove out the...

Welcome to WMT! It's noted that most of Keller's recipes are low in fruit. Especially for light fruit such as strawberry, you really...

Some apricots froze this year. We had our Mormon apricot and Italian prune flowering happily and then the snow fell and there was frost...

When I netted the tannat I noticed more sunburn and bird damage than I expected. This year I made an effort to keep the canopy a more...

Happy to help. Your grapes should come in cold, and it may take 2 to 3 days for them to come up to temperature, depending on your...