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FWK Australian Red Blend

Today was press day! As described on another thread, brix seemed to have stalled around 0.2 but I think this was due to flocculent...

The birds found my grapes this year and I had to put up emergency netting. The netting did negatively impact ripening and increased...

Picked Itasca (24 Brix and 2.95 ph) and Marquette (21 Brix and 2.78 ph). I was really hoping my ph would have come up more this year. I...

When I walked into the kitchen this morning, I could smell fermentation. That means it's a strong aroma, as scent has to travel from the...

After a good nights sleep and a couple of advil, I am feeling like a new man! It was a very strange harvest - as noted up thread, we...

Welcome. In general I think think the grape growing potential of the intermountain West is underrated.

I was pondering this same thing yesterday as I started to dump the crushed destemmed grapes into a not so clean fermenting bucket. I...

I use stainless steel primary fermenters and I always carefully wash them and then sanitize with star-san. ....and then we immediately...

My season is coming to an end. Did 4 batches this season. 1) 200lbs Zinfadel - had to dump. 2) 200lbs of Cab Sauv - in secondary...

Update: Mourvèdre Left a little earlier than I was expecting and arrived at the vineyard at 8:15am. I was back on the road at 8:30am...

Similar climate story here. Forecast for tomorrow is 90! Our zone has changed and we have gained 4 weeks in growing season over the...

Maybe this will help ; ) I do pay attention to leaf area and grape load. But this year the birds found my grapes and I had to net...

I picked another 50 lbs of tempranillo Last friday and 65 lbs of Malbec Tuesday night. The Malbec was only 22 brix and an absurdly low...

I got a text from a vineyard in San Diego on Friday that some Syrah was ready to harvest the bext day. Went out yesterday and picked...