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Thank you, much appreciated.

Not a huge deal but you used the same name as me (just capitalized differently). Would appreciate if you or Admn would change it as it is confusing. Thank you.

Hello Stickman, Thank you very much for the testing method suggestions, never heard these before and will certainly give them a try. To answer your questions, the grapes were 8 cases, Central Valley Riesling. We processed the way we learned at the Musto Boot Camp and following the More Wine...

Thanks everyone for the thoughts and suggestions. Please keep them coming. We spoke with a local winemaking expert (consultant to several winerys), and he also thought it was likely protein based so suggested another round of bentonite, which we did (about 3 weeks back). It has now cleared...

hello, Can anyone help me identify what’s going on with this vine? New Vinyard, 1 month since planting, St Vincent, NE Connecticut. Thank you very much.

Hello Masbustelo, Yep out of focus. Put up a better pic, but started a new thread so as to not hijak this one.

Should have noted, we are in north east Connecticut.

For reference, and this is our first attempt at a vineyard, we planted on May 16th (one month ago). The self rooted plants (Double A, 1x) are at the top of the 30 inch grow tubes (St Vincent, Marquette). The graphted vines are about 1/3 to 1/2 of that (about 10 - 15 inches, Chardonel). We did...

Thank you Masbustelo. As BitterrootGirl said, extremely helpful!

Thank you, it’s St. Vincent. Our vineyard is new this year (planted May 17). We have 117 vines, St. Vincent, chardonel , Marquette. All growing beautiful, but LOTS of questions!

Hello BitterrootGirl, We are at the exact same point with the exact same question. Hopefully someone that knows will respond!

Looking for ideas. We have 18 gallons of Riesling made last fall (California grapes). It was looking good (clear) and near ready to bottle but a slight off taste and nose. It was suggested we try Noblesse which we did. It made the wine cloudy and appears like it will not clear. Wine...

Not completely sure yet on the end posts. They are extremely solid, 2 ft into the ground. When back filling, we packed layers of stone and premix concrete (1 bag per post). Plan is to watch them and if there is any sign of leaning in, anchor (outside) and cables with tensioning to “pull...

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Hello Bumblebeetuna, We didn’t prune the roots at all, made big wide deep holes and planted everything the vines had. We pruned back the top growth in an effort to allow the vines to put their energy into developing a more robust root system than they already had. My questions were relative to...

Thanks again Salcoco and Masbustelo. I am using grow tubes (see pic below), and didn't plan to mulch (will keep weeds and any other growth down/ dead) and will eventually mow between rows (rows are 8 ft spacing). I plan to go vine to vine, this afternoon and remove some buds / shoots based on...

Thank you both very much for your help! Is it OK to go ahead and do the suggested pruning / bud removal at this point in growth ( can I do it now without harm to the vines)?

Would you suggest just pruning / pinching off everything except the two top shoots or literally cutting back the main trunks to 2 buds? Would you leave the two main “trunks”?

Hello Folks, We planted our vineyard about 12 days ago, 39 Chardonel, 39 St. Vincent, 39 Marquette. Since we are absolutely new at this, we have some questions we could use some help with; The picture of the self rooted vine is a St. Vincent: Did we leave too much when we trimmed the bare...