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Thanks salcoco!

I only have camden tablets. Can I use those to add to the wine? How?

We have half of our 2019 Petite Syrah in a 60 gallon barrel and the other half in 5 gallon car boys. We keep seeing a white film develop on the top of the wine in the glass car boys. Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it? Thanks

thanks Cdrew and Chris for your replies

Today the all the must is a -1 Brix. I am keeping the cap covered tight with plastic wrap and a plastic shower liner. Temps are 66 and 60 with the cellar temp at 58 so I think we will be ok till Sunday. The wine tastes dry but not tart.

Revised and I also added Fermaid K to the mix on day after the yeast and added again yesterday but the brix was below the 1/3 drop due to the accelerated fermentation.

Hi everyone Well this year we purchased 36 boxes of Petite Syrah here in Florida. We picked the grapes up on Saturday 09/28 and crushed the same day. So we have 18 boxes in the large fermenter and the other boxes dispersed into three 32 gallon covered containers. I used D254 yeast which I...

We have used D254 for two years now. The 2018 is still in the barrel getting ready for bottling into 5 gallon carboys so we ill see how it goes. So far though it tastes great

We are out at the Hunsader Farms Pumpkin festival three weekend in October

2018 is in the barrel! Finished the day with a delicious Italian meal!

They look so juicy and pretty!

We bit the bullet last year and bought this crusher :-) Save a lot of time destemming LOL.

Yes we have been purchasing grapes from Vince for over 20 years now. Do you go to the Italian Festival in Ybor ? We enter the wine contest every year and have won once or twice.

Thanks ....we had a lot of leaves and raisins though so hopefully we got rid of most ...

More to come at the pressing

Few pictures taken outside the wine cellar in Sarasota, Fl.

Those grapes are pretty!

Well my order will not arrive in time so I guess this year we will not be trying the MLF. I have to say though that we do age in oak barrels and have won some contests for our wine so we must be doing something right.

Ok so I ordered Viniflora CH16 and it will be here on Saturday. We are pressing the grapes on Sunday if the Brix is at 0. It says it does not require hydration and to pitch it directly into the barrel. I hope that I don't mess this up. We will just leave it alone in the barrel until we do the...