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Thank you, old story, to good to be true. Others beware . Thank you DIYer

Hello, Has anyone bought a French Oak Bsrrel from oakbarrelsforsale.com. ? mainshipfred has been good enough to try to get a barrel added to a. pending shipment , so I am hoping for that to happen. In the meantime I asked oakbarrelsforsale.com for a price for a Ffench 100 L. They came back with...

Thank you Fred, much appreciated. Bill.

Hello, Hopefully this plea gets to mainshipfred who I believe has a contact for new Hungarian Oak Barrels. Hopefully you are still looking to buy in bulk numbers. If so I am looking for a 100 L Zemplen Oak Barrel. How much to purchase and ship to 38555. Thank you so much. Bill McNab

We get so excited about making wine, so when juice comes available we forget that most juice gets watered down. Essentially we have poor memories and forget about our dissapointments . I agree with juice buckets being last, all on their own. The only success I have had with juice is when we...

Thank you Sir, most helpfull. Bill.

Hello, Can anyone help me with my first degassing adventure. Recently I bought some lightly used wine making gear, one item being a vacuum pump with the orange 2 connection tubing connection points. Although I have been winemaking for many years, I have never tried to vacuum degass. I have 10...

I have been making wine from grapes for 40 years. Most of the time I can get premium CA and or Canadian white grapes. Red grapes from CA. Once in a while I blend a kit into my grape wine in order to keep my barrels full. I have aged expensive kits for several years , however, never reached the...

Some advice given to a friend by as prof wine maker. Dandelion wine is best if you leave out the dandelions. Sorry to all dande winemakers.

Thank you Johnd, Excellent research, many thanks.

I imagine that the Wineries get the best grapes first, from the East here we are always subject to what they want to ship. The premium grapes last year, PS, that I bought in Detroit looked excellent, fresh looking also. I was happy with them. This year I am hoping that I can get them in...

Not really sure where the quality grapes are located. I mentioned Lodi because I had Petite Sirah premium grapes from there last year, very good wine as it turned out. What areas would you suggest as premium. Thanks Bill.

I am 1 hour West of Knoxville. Just over a year ago I moved from North Carolina. Muscadine rules in NC. I am more interested in premium CA grapes. I will try reaching out to the link you mentioned, thank you.

I will probably fo the same, my supplier has a nice big cooler / freezer. CDrew has a good idea also. TN to Detroit is a 10 hour drive one way. I surely do envy winemakers living near grape country, although, if I was living there I would make too much wine, Thanks to all for replying. Bill.

Thank you Gentlemen for replying, I am assuming you are Gentlemen, wait a minute, you must be, you make wine.

Hopefully I am connecting with Lodi area CA winemakers. I need a little advice please and thanks. I made Petite Sirah wine from grapes in 2018. I live in TN and have to drive to Detroit where I can obtain premium CA grapes crushed and destemmed. 2019 I plan to make P.S. and Cab Sauv plus Barbera...

Gentlemen, Thank you so much for your research and willingness to share details. My experience , based on 40 years of winemaking with French, Hungarian and American Oak has been the following. My preference overall has been for Hungarian Oak followed by French then American which I found to be...

Thank you so much for the info on Lodi Wine Lab. I will contact them this coming fall for yeast and other items. Y'all are lucky dogs being so close to the source of fine grapes. Bill.