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Last night Mrs. WM81 requested pork souvlaki. We have several recipes that work, but the one she wanted was called "Traditional Syrian...

Saturday night........ Green Chile' Cheeseburger night! :db Some assembly required!

here you go on cyanide in fruit pits

I can’t believe the shear amount of organisms that want to eat your grapes over in the States 😳 Everything here might be trying to kill...

welcome to WMT Agreed, you can not say that MLF has started unless you test for it. It is normal for fermentation to occur as...

Picked a bit over 200lbs of Russian River Pinot Noir on Wed (sorry, no pics), from a commercial vineyard that had excess. Inoculated...

12.5 gauge should work. There have been repairs on every trellis system I have seen that is a decade old. When you get down to it...

I should get 60 bottles of Russet apple wine unblended from just picked 300 lbs of apples so I'll chaptalize 2/3 of it with cane sugar...

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

I have been picking at the local winery, plus a bit of my own. This year some varieties have suffered with rain several times a week/...

welcome to WMT * start, the sooner you begin the learning curve the sooner you find the next question. Wine is a several months...

What do you have for secondary storage? 4 liter jugs are REALLY handy to have. When I need cooking wine I purchase Carlo Rossi Burgundy...

Lack of sulfite can greatly reduce a wine's shelf life, as K-meta protects against oxidation and a plethora of micro-critters. You'll...

I would add some plums to my meat stews as well as to some vegetable soups (2-3-4 pieces depending on how big your pot is). Also, I...

Welcome to WMT! First advice? Patience, Grasshopper. With very few exceptions, winemaking is a procrastinator's hobby. Second advice...