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Thanks for responding. there are several wineries here and they grow Cab, Pinot, Merlot plus some Pa stalwarts like Chamboricin. I'm just wondering guys who have grown vinfera vs hybrids in this area. BTW I'm in zone 6a but all Double A recommends for that is -30 hybrids...strange. I'm pretty...

I've been thinking of doing this for a few years, mainly because its really hard to get good grapes/juice to make wine with. I own a small piece of property and it looks like I will have a smaller 25 foot by 80 foot plot for one location and another that is around 120 foot by 80 foot. I can...

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Sounds like you'd get some fun from googling "Deadspin haters guide to the Williams-Sonoma catalog"

I tend to get very tipsy on my rack-a-palooza weekends

our local LHBS has a wine club and my wife asked to buy one of their old barrels (55gal) so we could make a table out of it. No problem, just got the call and the owner warned me to "hurry and get it so it doesn't dry out". Somehow the signals got crossed, I don't know where he got the idea I...

For you guys doing an extended maceration with the skins in the bag, what are you supposed to do at the end of the EM with the skins bag? I was thinking of fishing it out and giving it a good squeeze then take it out, and rack after a day or two when it settles.

Here is what inspired me to try this. I also grabbed a cheap wine kit for the "leftovers"

Not terribly impressed from juice buckets anymore so I'm gonna try something radical this year. Get a juice bucket and freeze it, siphon off as much as juice as i can. Probably have around 4.5gals of concentrated juice-then two crushed lugs of grapes. Balance everything and see what happens.

I'm gonna dose mine with KMeta , seeing this extra headspace is making me nervous.

jgmann67 Thanks I will. Since my "kit wine" setup is apart from my usual winemaking setup i can pretty much roll two kits every two months. BTW I'm not a fan of Merlot (too bland) but I'm always willing to take a recommendation.

You guys inspired me lol, never did a kit before but I wanted to try EM. So I bought two Fermonsters to try it out. First was an RJS Malbec that started at 24.5 Brix when I squeezed skin bag. Impressive! That finished to 0.994 within about 8 days and its resting for am 8 week EM. Second "victim"...

Are you gonna try and make wine from them? I'm thinking they might work well for "fortifying" juice buckets

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Doing one with an RJS Malbec kit. After making about 1000 bottles of wine thru the years I finally tried a kit lol

my records say I used Wyeast, but can't blame that because my PH was too low

my records say I used Wyeast, but can't blame that because my PH was too low

Yes I will do a chromatography test, I stirred them good today and all three foamed up good into the airlock. Still going strong......

Ok i bit the bullet and tried it, what do I have to lose? First off the PH was even lower than I thought-like 3.1. So I picked 3 batches and added some carbonate and got the PH up to 3.4, its amazing how much this alone improved the wine's flavor. I decided on CH16......plus I added some of More...

Darn MLF, can't get one to finish no matter what. After 3 months i gave up on some of my California wines, the other are over 3 months and still not done. I followed every step to the letter too. What grinds my gears is I had 3 batches now that had spontaneous MLF happen after a year in the...