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In that study they illustrate that lightly toasted oak has almost four times as much extractable tannin as medium toast, and even state "It is obvious that for maximum structural contribution a lightly-toasted chip should be used", and then they proceed to use Medium toast American oak chips in...

Why both Sovran and Abound? They are both FRAC class 11 strobilurins, and count as equivalent for rotation purposes. Does your schedule respect the 66 day Pre Harvest Interval for Mancozeb?

"tannin ft rouge" -cart Does a nice job of avoiding everyone who wants me to add the product to my shopping cart.

In my experiment I would probably only bottle a few from each test case, and blend the rest back together. So not really much at risk, other than the increased O2 exposure from working with small batches.

I'm beginning to realize that I'm more interested in experimenting and learning than in actually making wine.

I've read that Lallzyme EX-V goes beyond mush. Someday I want to split a batch three ways. In one use FT Rouge, in another use oak chips, and in the third use neither. Then after AF continue to keep them separate but treat identically. Do side by side tastings for a few years. But first...

I used to know all the tricks for AltaVista. But Google never much publicized theirs, and they keep changing things. The above link will be hugely helpful.

Yeast is very good at changing DNA. But probably has much more of an opportunity to do so out in the wild than in a basement.

Morning after the nor'easter.IMG_20180303_114052 by JimInNJ posted Mar 3, 2018 at 12:10 PM

Those usually fall into the pattern of "I used product X on one of my first batches and my wine really sucked . . . I'll never buy it again!" Which still does not tell us much about product X. LOL

'General Chit-Chat' seems like an appropriately useless hobby forum. ;-) At risk of being a total @$$, I would note that the above "Real Review" boils down to saying that you buy-into the logic of the marketing literature. It does not say that you have actually noticed any effect from using...

You're all very helpful, and I do appreciate that, but you are taking me a little too seriously. I was mostly going for the humor in the uselessness of many hobby forum posts. Product X is great!

Moving the renewal zone up has got to be a lot easier than down. I built my trellis for VSP with two fruiting wires so I could experiment. Last year it was Pendelbogen, but I want to shift to Double Guyot on the lower wire. I also have two Cabernet Franc vines that were leftover when I...

You say you have American and hybrid vines. You should have generally lower disease susceptibility than if you were growing vinifera. But you will need to be careful about phytotoxicity, as some common products will damage certain native and hybrid varieties. Find the labels on-line. Print...

Buds look alive. Looking forward to pruning soon.

Those suggestions usually work great. But for obscure products, not so much. I tested the Amazon idea on "tannin ft rouge" and saw no reviews. "Opti-Red" had one review: "if it's good enough for [insert prestigious Napa winery], it's good enough for me." If I include "problems, issues or...

Wouldn't a lot have to do with the environment in which the grapes were grown? If they came from the heart of a traditional wine growing region, surrounded by traditionally managed vineyards as far as the wind could blow, I would expect them to have very different microbes on them than grapes...

Spinosad is good stuff, and is labeled for GBM, but I rotate it with non-organic products like Acetamiprid, so I can't say how good Spinosad is alone on GBM.

Call me a prude, but I'm sticking with SO2, commercial yeast and safe ***.

Is it just me? I search for product X, wanting to find out if anyone has any actual experience with it. I find thousands of vendors repeating the identical manufacturer's marketing blurb. Eventually I find a few people posting on forums about the product. But the forum posts invariably take...