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After reading these posts all I can say is wow! My only wild ferment was so incredibly bad I would never try it again.

Update, I filled the barrel with water today and within an hour it stopped leaking. Very happy about that. Tomorrow I’ll sulfite until I need it in September.

i would amend the soil now while you can.

Almost all insecticides degrade rapidly in the sunshine. Bifenthrin is very effective but is useless after 7 days in the sun, it’s become my go to during the summer, then closer to harvest I use a water based pyrethrum.

My wife and I decided it’s time to get out and visit more Wisconsin wineries. To day we visited one in a winemakers home basement , he makes wine from vinifera juice and local fruits. His black currant and plum wines were very good. Good stuff kinda weird being in a basement. The next was a big...

i would spray liquid lime sulfur heavily on all vines, the entire vine just before bud swell.

Welcome, if you can access them you might these podcasts of interest. Inside winemaking Sustainable winemaking Vineyard Underground

Very few as in maybe 6 on my plum trees and one in the grapes. I’ve killed so many over the years maybe I’ve got the local population under control.

This is the worst year for my vines, last year I noticed the scars had no impact on the berries that didn’t split open. I picked the split berries as I walked thru the vineyard every day, a couple hundred berries maybe prior to harvest. That keeps the wasps and bees away. Prevention is to keep...

If you have wrinkly looking leaves and seeds popping out of green berries along with brown scars on the berries you probably have thrips. At .04” long you can’t see them very easily without a magnifying glass. I let the grass and weeds in the vineyard get really tall and when I finally cut...

Is it too hot to use sulfur?

While out on a walk with my dog I came a cross a large sumac clump, I’ve never seen the golden ones

Could be the start of black rot or if you open one up and look for a small worm ,it could be grape berry moth. Also keep track of it and see if it develops into something more indenifiable.

She’s not in pain when she poops, she wants us to stir the litter for her then she starts digging in it. Then she poops just fine.

Very nice

I just added a half bottle to each barrel, didn’t taste it but it smells very nice. Thanks for the input everyone.

This little monster cries and cries before she uses the litter box. My wife or I have to watch her use the litter box or she keeps crying. I’ve never had a cat do that. Here she’s taking over the dogs bed.

View from a county park in Waushara county Wi

It’s flowering time in Wisconsin now. Good time to get out and map the wild bushes for harvest later.

I was hoping to give the wine a little more body, but I guess topping off two more times won’t really add that much. I’ve been adding about 1/2 a bottle every month so it should be developing more body than when I first barreled it. Sounds like I should taste it today to see how it’s doing. I...