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That's great news, honestly never heard of those before, so I just looked up FWK and found this text in the page 2021 Finer Wine Kits – Barbera in Detail – Bryan's Wine & Beer Making Site: "FWK are not pasteurized, so they are not shelf stable! They must be kept chilled or frozen prior to use...

Yeah sorry I should have been more specific to the original posters question, as I'm thinking in terms of fresh grapes but they were asking about kits. Here's 120lbs of fresh cabernet sauvignon and 120 lbs of cabernet franc grapes which yielded a little over 6 gallons each after press, but I...

You certainly could be right, I'm not an expert, still learning from mistakes. For a little more background, the must started at 1.094 SG, I gave it Yeast Nutrient at 1.062 SG and the secondary ended with a final of 0.996 SG. My rule of thumb has been to add Yeast Nutrient when SG reaches 66%...

Assuming your making a 6 gallon kit, a 7.9 gallon bucket in my experience will push all the way to the top if you have skins, so you cant leave the lid off, plus the CO2 will cause the wine to splatter out of the top of the airlock if you used one, creating a puddle in the top of your lid and a...

Great article, nice to see an explanation as to why the bag says not to apply above 85F. Yeah I've stopped using the oil because it said it was only effective against powdery mildew, hence the grape leaf rust. It was effective on powdery mildew as a corrective measure, rather than just...

Yeah it's very arid here, we don't get much rain at all so irrigation is always necessary. Right now my watering is every Monday and Friday so I really never let them dry out much, except maybe by Thursday, but that makes sense that doubling the water per day doesn't necessarily mean the plant...

Well yes and no, the feedback I received did encourage me to pull the vine but I came to the conclusion on my own based on the cost vs benefit of keeping it or removing it. From what I've been reading you do have a point that it was likely too late if it was Phyloxera, but I also needed to know...

Given your experiment that certainly implies that the Bermuda grass is a problem, but not the singular cause. Good to know and I'm glad you clarified that especially for anyone reading this thread as it's important that writing this off as a Bermuda Grass problem is not how we left it given...

Thank you again for your invaluable feedback, I'm learning a ton here! Fortunately 115 is not the average, it's usually between 90 and 104 here during any given summer day, but coincidentally the last two Labor Days were record breakers, not exactly trending in a good direction. Right now...

Correction, I was indeed taking pictures in 2020, here's the Zinfandel vine that was dead by spring of 2021 which I mentioned in the last post. I figured that it was because I got greedy and over cropped it, which I assumed is why I ended up with all that uneven berry ripening you see in the...

That's a much more feasible price, I'll give it a shot because at this point it's really a guessing game. I looked up the various nematodes that affect grapes and it looks like there's 7 different species, not all of which would cause the Galls I was expecting to see...

Wow, I hope not, that's extremely steep. I'm hoping that was just an optical illusion. Here's some cleaner pics without the dirt and Bermuda grass roots.

True true, thanks again, hopefully my learning experience here helps someone avoid the same setbacks in the future. In short, kill those dang weeds!

Thanks again, that's definitely the plan. I have actually been using Ornamec 170 this year, which has successfully killed it in many other spots in my vineyard, but I held off on treating this particular vine because that new growth coming from the ground was surrounded by the grass, so I was...

I decided that salvaging one vine is not worth losing the whole vineyard, so the only way to be 100% sure was to dig it up. The good news, is that there is no sign of Phyloxera on the roots that I can tell. The bad news is that the Bermuda grass which has invaded my yard and was growing around...

Yup, none of my vines are grafted, for whatever reason here in Temecula CA the nurseries don't sell grafted vines. It has dawned on me that this could be phyloxera, but the puzzling part is that there was no evidence of that above ground, the leaves looked normal until they went limp and...

That helps immensely. I was thinking along those lines as well, if I wait until dormancy then chances are the plant will die by next spring and set me back yet another year, so I might as well take the risk now. I went ahead and cut it, first at about the middle of the trunk, then noticed...

Thanks very much for the reply. Yeah this vine never had very good vigor and I don't much like the structure so I was planning on cutting off the trunk since I saw the wilting and letting both (or one) of those become the new trucks (I've had better production with vines that have dual trunks...

Hello, I have a 3rd year Merlot vine in a row of 6 Merlot vines that has sudden wilting on the cordon but the growth from the roots is fine and healthy. None of the other 24 vines have this problem, it was growing fine until last week all the shoots and leaves became limp and turned upside...

I have seen GWSS on my vines this year. These pics are from last september.September. these are zinfandel vines on their native rootstock in murrieta CA. The leaf burning appeared in late August. Thanks in advance, -Todd