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Haven’t had a cat for about 40 years, I forgot how entertaining they are.

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Here’s what I’ve been drinking all month. I was putting on too much fat so I swore off my two favorite foods. Wine and peanut butter sandwiches, not together, so far just cutting out those two items I’ve lost 8 lbs. it’s been a long month, can’t wait for April.

Yeah, we worry about frost till mid May

I was getting a bit concerned as well , with my south facing hillside vineyard I was afraid the soil would warm up enough to start bud swelling, but now it looks like below freezing at night as usual so all should be well.

I scrub and sanitize my used bottles and then rinse with stainless steel rinser it has saved my so much time.

Wow, way to go. I considered doing mine like you did and very quickly decided the bandsaw was the way to go.

I have two 10 gallon Hungarian oak barrels that I age wine for 12 months in and there isn’t a lot of oak imparted. I’ve actually started adding American oak to the barrels to get more flavor. As for my bourbon barrel, I took it apart and bandsawed off the heavy char and cleaned it up. Right now...

As soon as I put up my last sheet on a project I sold my lift to make sure I would never do it again.

I would think you’re drinking too much. I know I wrestle with the same problem because it seems so benign, how can drinking wine in the evening be bad? My wine is generally around 12% so I feel I can drink a bit more, but usually stick to about 375 ml per day, I’m more worried about my liver. My...

I think this year I’m going to try to get suckers from the roots to grow like new plants. If they are successful I should be able to replace my older misshapen trunks in 2 years. I wonder if I need to cut them back like a new vine or not.

I planted them last May

I recently pruned my itasca back to 3 or 4 buds because it’s the right thing to do, but it sure seemed counter intuitive. It was kind of painful.

I grow Marquette grapes and try to make my wine in the vineyard. I have thin soil (12”) on top of hardpacked sand. I try hard to fertilize and water and leaf pull etc. I hand sort all my clusters while they hang so when I harvest I don’t have to sort again, so I don’t add so2 at crush. The...

Along with my Marquette , I plan on harvesting enough Itasca for six gallons or so. Hopefully I’ll have enough Marquette to sell. If weather is kind I would like to pick blueberries for six gallons also.

I’ve done MLF on fresh juice buckets with good results. I’ve never had a flabby wine.

Weird. I had a neighbor and a sister-in-law who both had hit the back of their really hard and they completely lost their sense of smell.

Chalk it up to experience and move on. I had to dump my 2020 vintage and my 2021 vintage is too acidic to enjoy. At 12 Brix I wouldn’t have tried to make wine. How old are your vines?

I’ll keep that in mind. My wife’s cousin lives in Boerne, we visited a few years ago , really nice area. Found a great place for rough sawn mesquite lumber.

Gelatin reduces tannins very well with little affect on flavor. Of course time is the best way to mellow tannin.