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Hi All, I'm about a week (or so) away from harvest. We have had a ton of rain lately and when I went out today to check on things found this. It's only on 2 clusters. The 3rd picture is a cluster which represents about all others on all the vines. What do you think?

Paulie, Where did you get that press?

They say confession is good for the soul. I have read about crop thinning, but never in a million years would I have thought I’d need to do it with such a small offering. As the clusters continued to grow, I did think about it, but as mentioned… little late now. I’m going forward with every...

Go man go!

Don’t want to hijack my own thread, could this to be a mineral/chemical deficiency, not a virus? Every year, I have big beautiful green leaves and the edges start going red just about veraison time. Very few get to the stage yours are at being totally red. Yours are also concentrated is one...

Prayers for you and your family! 🙏

Thank you NorCal!! 👍

37 in Stanwood, Wa. 🥴

10 minutes late for a 5 minute conversation, sorry.

Yes it is… my good wife’s contribution, it’s proper name is tulle. Not only keeps out the birds, but wasps, and other flying critters.

Hi All, Update time for the OP. Here's what they look like... mostly cool and rain in the forecast for the next 10 days. Crossing my fingers.

Hi All, I want to be as ready as I can for the testing and correction of the must. I have artaric acid for upping the acidity and lowering the ph, but I do no have calcium or potassium carbonate to raise the ph (if needed). The hit results for the later on Amazon are staggering. What type of...

Hi All, I don't want to assume anything with the process. I have a checklist from MoreWine that suggests you check for sugar, make that correction and then test the ph and acidity. Is that correct? Dave

I see that 5 Star makes something called PBW... that will ship to my home from Amazon (whereas Star San will not). I haven't seen PBW talked about very much. Is it a sanitizer?

Hi All, As you may know, I’m a newbie in the grape growing and wine making hobby. I also only have 9 vines, but this year 8 of those vines produced like you see in the movies. 😀 Last year our September and October here in Western Washington were sunny and warm and really unbelievable. It rained...

Good Morning All, As I sit here studying my 2 favorite references for home winemaking, neither of them mention anything about letting the must sit for any length of time after adding SO2 before moving on to testing. They go right into discussion about testing and adjusting. I would think there...

Hi All, As I prepare for my first real year of attempting to make wine from my own Merlot grapes, I just opened a bottle of Merlot from my favorite commercial winery and thought “what is the ph, the acidity and the brix". Has anyone taken these measurements from a store bought wine? Couldn’t...

Correction accepted. ☺️ There is a brew store in the region, looks like I’ll have to take a drive and pay their price.

Here’s my solution from city birds.

Honest… I get this message that says cannot ship to your location. Western Washington.