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I used Sunridge nurseries out of Bakersfield. They are one of largest providers in the country and have a huge selection of clones and rootstock combinations

For what it is worth, CA also has a wine grape glut. A local grower here in Paso Robles told me that he is dropping 50 tons of grapes this year. He did fulfill all his contracts and sold an extra 10 tons (including 1 to me) but just had way more grapes than he had buyers for. There are lots of...

Welcome to WMT! Sonoma county is a fabulous place to live - my wife and I came very close to moving there prior to the fire which drove prices up. We ended up buying near Paso Robles instead but still think fondly of that area.

Well, there is a guy in town who offers a rent a hawk service. He stops by once a week during bird season with his hawk and sets it loose on the starlings. He claims that once the hawk nails 2 or 3, the whole flock makes a run for it and won’t come back for several days. It is really tempting!!!

Hi Bizzidy - glad you enjoyed the thread. I haven’t been as diligent about keeping it up to date as I would like. Hopefully I’ll do better next year. I ended up getting the vines from Sunridge. Many commercial growers in this area recommended them because of their dependable quality and...

When I planted my vineyard in April 2022, the bareroot grapes were sold in lots of 25 and the green plants in lots of 20. Since my rows weren‘t even multiples of 20 or 25, I ended up with a few extra plants of each varietal. I talked a local nursery into selling me five gallon pots cheaply -...

Welcome to WMT! I’m a fellow Californian hobby vineyard owner - just a few years behind you - from near Paso Robles. Do come join us in the vineyard sub board - lots of good discussions which may be of interest to you take place there.

Thank you. Yup they are both Hobby vineyards - we work hard to maximize their potential with no intent to make any money!!! And the irs and the atf have no need to get involved!

And a few from the Grenache pick

A cluster from Syrah pick

Photos from the Primitivo pick

For all five of the wines, I started them with a 2 day cold soak using dry ice and some VR Supra for color. All but the Mourvedre used D254 yeast (Mourvedre was Clos). Taking the wines in the order we picked them: Primitivo - Picked 9/27 - ultra early in an attempt to help solve a problem...

Stunning shot!

Best of luck David!!

My apologies to David for hijacking his thread - which can be found here https://www.winemakingtalk.com/threads/grape-ripening-time-running-out.78100/ It’s been a very busy last month. Bought 1200 pounds of both Primitivo and Tempranillo grapes as part of group projects and have them working...

David - sorry for hijacking your thread. I’ll respond to this here but then take my stuff over to my own vineyard thread. So the pH measurements have been done a number of ways. Prior to picking I picked a large sample - probably 75 berries - from all over the relevant rows. I place in a...

Fingers crossed for you! I’m hoping to pick Syrah today. Brix was 26 on Thursday morning but ph was only 3.22. I’ll test first thing this morning but also can’t wait much longer as birds and bees are just hammering the grapes. We have low pH across the board on the grapes so will need to deal...

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Welcome to WMT! Lots of helpful people here so you are in the right place. If you have any pictures, please post them. Really helpful in figuring out what is going on.

Congratulations!!! What a feeling that must be!!