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When that light comes on, it's time to EJECT !

When I've had those moments of wondering about value, compared to commercial wines, I came to the conclusion that it is definitely cheaper! But only if I don't put a price on the slave labor I use. Still, the quality is usually good, the price is at least 50 to 75 percent less , maybe even...

I found a nice Rosata recently that I am looking forward to the warm days of summer to drink. It is a blend of Barbera (65%), Nebbiolo (25%), and Sangiovese (10%) from Cascade Cliffs Winery in Washington state.

Welcome to WMT , and goodluck with your new vineyard!

Sometimes it is difficult to utilize a 5 or 6 gallon carboy because of the excess headspace. I have found one of the simplist sollutions is to use a 3 gallon and a couple of one gallons jugs. Sometimes you end up with just 750 ml bottle left over, which you can put an airlock on, or just sip it...

My basic rule in winemaking is ... make wine that I like to drink. I started out years ago with a red wine kit that did not impress me, and later gravitated to buying grapes and making wine with them. THAT was a big improvement for my winemaking. ( sangiovese , riesling , nebbiolo , syrah ) ...

So , has anybody tried making wine out of chew? And I mean NEW, unused chew. Sounds maybe a bit out there, but...maybe it's good.

I bought an All-In-One pump kit a few years ago and have been quite happy with it. I use it for any racking I do, from glass jugs to glass carboys , buckets ... whatever I need to transfer. The word ' elegant ' comes to mind. Not that racking with a siphon wand and hose is hard, but the pump is...

I'm sure you can do that, stick them in a pot with some dirt and keep them in the house until the outside weather is agreeable. In my experience the cuttings want to grow ! I have taking some fresh cuttings and just stuck them in the dirt...and they grew! I also stuck one in the crack of an old...

As my morning-after-St.-Patrick's-Day-Coffee kicks in , my brain went here. *how to cook sandhill cranes*

Last night was back to basics. Blackeyed peas with chunks of hickory smoked bacon cooked in. Sometimes simple is best!

The Ohio license plate plane and banner look to be correct, actually. The Kitty Hawk plane had the stabilizer in the front, and was what you call a 'pusher' plane. ( propeller in the back )

I use small Spiral notebooks. I usually only make three different wines each year, and each wine only ends up taking three pages of information...max. So, a small spiral notebook works well for me and lasts several years before i need a new one. Another positive note ( no pun intended ) is...

They forgot the rum !

Happy New Year! What am I doing today? Nothing. Not a damn thing. :)

A person could just distill the 'wine' and use the alcohol. I've never tried 'pickled mouse' , but it can't be much worse than pickled salmon ...lol!

My narrow-minded view on the story was that the wine is getting better and better! The growing of winegrapes will always present challenges. That isn't new.

There's some that do and some that dozen. Words are weird

I do not grow St. Vincent grapes but from what I have read online, they ripen better when they are cluster-thinned ( green harvest ) . Basically the grapes may have a hard time ripening if ALL the clusters it produces are left on the vine. So, you thin them out, remove them, sometime around...

I do not use an aerator, per se , but I WILL pour a glass or two of wine into a cocktail shaker, shake it up for a minute, and serve. It works amazingly well when you find you needed to have decanted the wine you have... but didn't.