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What are people up to in 2022? We have used up much of our wedding wine leftovers. I'm considering to do something in the spring, IDK if I'll go Chilean or South African again like I did last year. This time putting in smaller bottles or bags (we did our wedding wine in bulk since we knew...

Cool I'll read up on it! TBH I don't know if I'll really be motivated enough to make more than we'll drink so who even knows....anyway doing a workshare at the farm next year instead would be better for me to get in shape, haha

Followup! So we had our wedding, yay! Apparently our stuff was TOO professionally done, a lot of people didn't realize we made the wine or thought we like, put labels on something that someone else made etc. The ones who understood what we did thought it was dope! BUT we have a lot left...

Used Canva to make wine labels. It was a very easy process- they have quite a few templates available. Here's one of them.

The day we have all been waiting for...bottling day! Fiance took care of it, lol. He's the best! Unfortunately I was at work and didn't get to sample. BUT! he said it was "really f'ing good" and he does not really love wine. Thankyouuuuu. I think he was a little skeptical of my plan, and...

Not sure what I want to do this year...I really enjoyed making wine for the first time in the past year and would like to expand a little. About to empty 3-5 carboys and we have more in the attic (my fiance used to make cider/mead) Work in Philly/live in South Jersey, lotta options. I'm 10...

So we think we have a plan, kinda... My fiance has generously volunteered to bottle. We are going to use the BIB bags that have the dual spout since it's easier. We have saved a massive amount of money overall, we can afford to spend a tiny amount here to make it simpler. I tried contacting...

Getting married this fall and don't have a lot of time for wine, but I had so much fun (and, success?) making wine for our wedding want to try a little something. I've the skins from 40lb of WA cab still I want to put with some juice...been thinking about my grandma a lot this year, wanted to...

That’s a good call. Idk if I’d feel comfortable at Panera (big chain I never go to) but I’m a regular at a local shop…apparently they DO offer coffee boxes, 96oz (so I guess they have 3L bags?). I’ll check tomorrow, thanks!

I know I can get the astrapouches for bag in box bottling reasonably on Amazon, but was wondering if anyone had bought in bulk and wanted to sell some. I'd be most interested in larger sizes- 3L or 5L most likely. Also would prefer the one with the cap, but whatcha got? I will have 16 gallons...

About 3 months out from the big day, kids! Took one last taste test of the cab and the rose- both are coming along nicely. Whatever was going on the cab that I wasn't sure about has settled down- still definitely a lot of fruit in it, but the tannins are coming through finally, it's starting...

Don't try this at home kids... Racked the rose last night...ran it as dry as I could. Once again have messed up on the carboy situation- thought we had a 5 gal, nope, it's 6, and turns out too much head space. Otherwise had 4 1-gallon jugs... We racked, argon'd the crud out of it, and I guess...

Amazingly I got a reply back from Gino Pinto on the South African juice. "South African Whites are coming from the Breede valley which is relatively broad and flat for a Western Cape valley, averaging at a floor height of 80m-250m above sea-level. Western regions are mostly alluvial and flat...

Alright! 4 days in and today was skins day. What I did was on day 1 (mid afternoon) get my semillon juice started and then take out the frozen cab sauv skins in another bucket. The semillon got the Rhone 4600 and the cab sauv already had been inoculated with RC212. Day 3 later in the day I...

Just went to Gino's today, got my bucket of South African semillon. They just came in yesterday afternoon- not all but luckily what I ordered came in. Doin a crazy rose with the semillon juice and skins from last fall's WA cab sauv I made

Yes, I'm going to make sure I do this on a day I can watch it. Really no idea what to expect. I think it's so funny though...like a ******* rose of Bordeaux grapes (except the grapes are from Washington and the juice from the other hemisphere). The sort of thing you can only do if you make it...

Wooo got my joos today. Drove down to Gino Pinto's since the bucket I ordered was in. This wine is going to be so weird- I decided to grab some South African semillon...letting that roll with some Rhone 4600 I scored cheap to get some mouthfeel going for a few days. Had just enough time to...

I didn't happen to ask @Ajmassa about the separate Red Mt. cab...that area is great though. "Inland Desert Nursery" is actually the name though. It's not a winery per se, it's a nursery that grows vines and sells to local wineries and rando people I guess? What it sounds like is they just sell...

Riesling is even better than before- win! The cab is still weird but doesn't have that cherry stronger taste anymore that was a little off putting. Surprised how different it tastes now since last time. I feel like it needs some more body/tannins still- it's like, thin. Do I put more oak, or...

@Juniper Hill hmm interesting to know. What grape varietal did you use?