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Awesome replies. Thanks! This will help me so much as I was wondering if this young pinot noir I just made would ever amount to anything the way it was tasting. I'll let it age and taste it again in the future.

I have been going back and forth on what to do... I live in an area with relatively hot summer days and we don't have AC. This is obviously an issue for storing my wine and fermentation vessels. Right now, I have 3 carboys in a large plastic bin full of water and I replace a frozen water bottle...

Hi Dan, wow that's awesome! Do you know if fancy, textured, art paper type label stocks are readily available and if your machine would print on them? I was thinking about printing a label something like this 3D render I made:

This grape vine came with the house and we have done very little to help it thrive. Now that I planted a backyard vineyard and am getting into grape growing, I am noticing that this vine may not be doing so well. It has black spots on the shoots, some leaves are curly and crumpled looking, and...

Just finished planting my little vineyard on the south facing hillside of my back yard in Novato, CA. 27x Cab Sauv, 9x Cab Franc, and 13x Merlot along the back fence.

Hi, new home vintner here and had a question about what our musts/wines should taste like at different stages. I am worried that when I taste my must or young wine, I will not have the experience to know if it needs adjustment or just needs to age. How should I expect the flavors to evolve...

Thanks yall! So would you say that PH is much more important than TA? If PH is correct, but TA seems off, it's nothing to worry about? (Or was the TA of 3.25 OK?) It is bubbling after 30 hours, just not very quickly - maybe once every 6 seconds @ ~70degrees. Johnd, great strawberry wine thread...

Ah, thanks; good info there! When you say starting pH, do you mean that the pH will change after fermentation naturally or it will change after fermentation from my addition of acid? I tasted some of the must and it tasted pretty good to me, not astringent, but mostly because it was...

Hi all, I got into wine making last month and just started my first wine from scratch. Saw you all talking about some interesting stuff here, so decided to join. My first wine is with some beautiful strawberries from the farmer's market. Unfortunately I followed the directions on the wine...