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I'll be scoffed for sure - but I actually attempted a Chardonnay concentrate (not a kit) after finding the canned juice 7 yrs later. The juice was an amber color - believe it or not I just bottled 5 gallons as sweet Italian "Vin Santo" and it is great!

I have two 5 gallon carboys (1 Pinot N and 1 Zin) that are experiencing a stuck fermentation at 1.02. I plan to re-innoculate with Levlin 1118 yeast, in a 75 degree environment. Has anyone ever experienced this? Should the young wine be re-racked into the primary fermenter? or is adding the...

I bought a batch of a dozen yeast strains in bulk. Does anyone know if they can be frozen for any legnth of time and used sometime later, without losing effectiveness?? Thanks, Bob S

Hi Mike - thanks for the response! The vines came from the Double A Vineyard in the Finger Lakes region of NY as 2 yr old cuttings with a healthy root system. Actually we had an above average winter snowfall-wise. My best guess is that we received a good 60" or better of snow - the Spring...

Last summer I started 18 new vines in Colorado (9000 elev) - Frontenac and La Crescent - they thrived in last summer's environment and eased into dormancy quite naturally and seemingly healthily. This spring only three (all Frontenac) came back. We had a very mild winter in central CO, and...

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