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Hi, I see a few mentions about Avante red wine yeast, favorable comments. Can anyone give me a supplier's name that sells the yeast. I am looking for smaller packages than 500mg, more like a bunch of 5mg or 10 mg packages. Enough for 40 gallons of wine. Thanks in advance, Bill.

Talking about wine bottles, any advice as to removing lables? Thanks in advance.

You are giving me items to think about, thanks. I have always used either my barrel to impart oak, or, French Oak chips, never used stick or spirals. Next year I will experiment. My Barrel is 2 years old, still some oak left, this time I decided on French Oak, however, since the wine is so...

1 month after overheating my Male culture. My Petite Sirah has cleared very, very nicely. Currently I have French Oak chips in my carboys. The wine is very, very jammy, acid level is good, approx 7gm per liter. The wine is too jammy at present, Fortunately I have 15 gal of Merlot, 6 gal PV all...

Hi, Anything is possible, however, lots of ways to make mistakes by taking risks. I would rack into a protected vessel, carboy. I assume that when you say second fermentation you mean the malolactic process. If you do rack leave a little lees present in the racked vessel. If you are an...

Are we all out of real winemaking questions.? Wait a minute, just answered my question.

Big reds for me also. This year Petite Sirah. LA would be a long drive, Buford GA will suit me. From where I live in Crossville TN 3.5 hours, not bad.

John, Lets keep in touch John, are you in a wine club??. I am new to TN dont think there is a wine club near me, time to research though. I usually make 20 tyo 30 gallons of wine every year. I would love to get quality CA grapes this close to home. If you know of other wine junkies maybe we can...

I have not called Colavita yet, however, tbeir web page has a distributor in Buford, GA probably 4 hours from our location. If you check the web page look for the little dashes upper rght corner.

Looks like they have a distributor 3.5 hours from nne, Yeah Ha.

Thanks for the info Sir, I will certainly call the gentleman next year. I have been trying for a supplier since I moved South, 4 years now. Thanks again. Bill.

Does anyone know of an importer of CA fresh grapes to the Knoxville TN area, or wthin 300 miles of TN. Thanks.

Hi CDrew, Yes lets keep in touch to compare. I have a Hungarian Oak Barrel and had my wine in it when I added my Malo culture, hoaever racked into Carboys to get a more visible tell tale bubble stream. The carboys fit into my cardnoard little shelter which is easier to keep warm for the Malo. I...

Sorry, I have already sulphited tbd wine. When my heater malfunctioned I think my wine got over 120 degrees . Efectively I cooked the ML bacteria. Fortunately my wine tastes OK. I had one carboy finish thed ML process, I will blend them together.

Update on Petite Sirah. Nov 16/2018. Had my 4 carboys in my garage which is unheated and in combination we got down to freezing last night , outside. So had my carboys in their cardboard enclosure with a heater which operates with a thermostat. Used it for years, no problems. Set it up 2 nights...

Starting sg was 1.100 finished sg .995 Ph start was 3.90 ML culture was added when AF was almost complete, maybe 1 brix. ML nutrient was also added. 10 days ago I tried seeding the 3 carboys with no action. I am planning to rack all 3 on to the finished carboy lees. After Paper C testing to...

I can see multitudes of very small bubbles in 1 carboy, nothinh in the others. However, testing with Paper C to verify. One carboy shows major move from malic to lactic. The others show no evidence of ML.

Hello, Thanks for your thoughts. All my carboys are 23L. All are free run with a little sludge purposely added. All nutrients AF and ML are consistently equal. Equaly amounts of CH16 MAlo culture. Visually I can see that the carboy which is underway has a little more sediment, maybe thats the...