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So after a great growing season thus far, we are suddenly smitten with something that is producing heavy losses, especially with our Seyval Blanc. I'm assuming this is bird damage but I'm not sure. My wife thinks it is some sort of disease or rot. The vineyard is about a mile away from our...

I'm so happy you mentioned Vinoshipper - I was literally just looking at their website when I saw your reply. Glad to hear you're having success with them. I'm definitely going to investigate further! Thanks!

Thanks for the advice everyone. While reading your responses I've also been deep diving some web searches and skimming some books and it sounds like very few small wineries are doing what we have been doing, which is selling through local liquor stores etc. Most advice seems to be in line with...

Vineyarddog, we're in MA. Our state is actually quite reasonable when it comes to licenses etc. for small wineries. I inquired yesterday and the fee that would allow us to deliver (like the milkman) would cost $300 - not super expensive, but just expensive enough to give me second thoughts...

So our little winery is doing well. Harvested a few hundred pounds of our own grapes last year and we're also still supplementing with juice from the Finger Lakes. We've got a few medals under our belt and customers have gone out of their way to complement our wines. I probably shouldn't say...

Thanks, we haven't tried AMH yet, but we have tried BM4x4. RC212 seemed to do a better job of softening hybrid grapes' acidity while maintaining the bold fruit aromas I like so much. Maybe you're right - just go generous on the nutrients and check frequently. I think I may bite the bullet and...

For the past few years I've been alternating Mancozeb and myclobutanil (both commonly available here in the States, but I don't know about in your neck of the woods. Myclobutanil can be bought as Spectracide Immunox). This is mostly to guard against black rot. So far no problems on my...

cmason, it's funny you mention RC212 because that is the yeast I used in both wines referenced at the beginning of this post. It would be a shame if I had to abandon it because we have done yeast trials (particularly with French/American hybrids like Marquette) over the past few years and have...

Hadn't heard of Avante, wood1954 - thanks for the tip, I'll look into it!

"Keep your nose in the carboy." LOL, I love that! Sounds like good advice stickman, thanks!

So this has happened twice now - the first time I thought it was a fluke, but now I'm seriously wondering what's going on: Red wine (first time was Marquette juice, second time was Chilean Merlot from grapes), primary fermentation goes well, numbers all look good, yeast nutrients added as...

Just an observation - I use the AIO vacuum rig for bottling. Which works great. The only slight downside to vacuum bottling is that my basement winery gets foggy within minutes. Not kidding! When I'm bottling, you can see a foggy haze in air inside the winery. I feel like if I do more than...

Storms like that don't happen on a regular basis, but every few years they might. Guess I'll have to look around and see what's available locally. I've heard about locust posts before, but can't seem to find them locally. I'm pretty much limited to what I can find at Lowes, HD, or Tractor...

Bshef, the line posts are 20' apart. I'm sure you're right, that adding more line posts would help, but I'm also wondering about specifically what kind of posts to use. These were standard green metal posts which I bought from Lowes. They were oriented with along the same plane as the wind...

So during Wednesday night's bomb cyclone here in the Northeast, this happened: Thankfully it was only 1 row and the vines bent without breaking. But it makes me wonder, what's the best way to prevent this from happening again in the future? Clearly those green metal stakes that I'm using...

Many thanks, Scooter68 and everyone else. I guess I'm going to go ahead and order the printer. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the input, all. Scooter68, fortunately our label does not contain any actual photographs. It's just a fairly simple drawing and text. See attached. Do you think a color laser printer would be able to render this nicely?

As a side note, just a bit of a rant about how expensive it is to buy finished labels online. Sure, they get cheaper when you buy in larger quantity, but we're still very small and all our batches are small. I had about 12 gallons of Marquette that finally finished aging and came out beautiful...

That's awesome, thanks Jim. This is what I needed - some reassuring feedback from someone who has gone that route. Can I infer that you're doing this professionally, and that you feel the quality of the labels you're producing is up to retail/restaurant quality? Also, do you ever have any...

Just wondering if anyone has anything else to add with regard to Onlinelabels.com when paired with a decent color laser jet? I'm getting sick of paying big bucks to buy finished labels online. I'm super close to putting in an order on Amazon for a Canon Color imageCLASS LBP622Cdw, but I could...