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It doesn’t really produce much h2s. I’ve used it for a bunch of wines both at home and commercially also just a moderate feeder

I took a look at one of the vineyards I am getting grapes from this year today and the brix was 15 on vines in shadier spots and as high as 25 on some in really harsh areas average overall was 20 brix so I’m going to wait 2 weeks should be 24 brix by end of the month for that vineyard.

Now that’s how a grape should look lol also damn that ph is wicked acidic

It’s much the same in California agonizingly slow ripening we might not get our grapes till the end of October early November. We have a contract for grapes that’s starting to be a bit scary.

Regular corks are all around superior in my opinion.

They are a lot of kind of awkward blending percentages.

What Paulie posted

It keeps up to 4 years

They really don’t do the same thing different products for different uses closest product that’s cheaper is made by laffort, it’s called He Grand Cru it’s a enzyme like color pro

My best wine that I have made at home outside of commercial winemaking was my 2021 Zinfandel, it’s fantastic and pretty much spot on perfect and is what every Zinfandel should strive to be, I picked the grapes spot on perfect acidity and brix wise and then proceeded to nail the cold soaking and...

Color pro is fantastic stuff but it’s crazy pricey even for commercial wineries I’m using like $500-800 of it yearly

I can taste a wine right out of primary going into malo and know pretty reasonably well how it’s going to taste down the road experience does matter

Meh

Keep it as cool as possible and I will add personally my favorite and in my opinion the best Zinfandel yeast is Rp-15

The harvest date for cab was end of September in 2021 we had picked everything else by then so the fact that everything is this late this year is a bit crazy 2022 was awful nobody really got any decent fruit yields were down and a lot of wineries skipped 2022 as a whole

Dang that’s a bit earlier than I would have expected for cab, ours is not coming in till October

It’s more of an addiction lol

Yeah

That’s been the bane of my winemaking career weather dropping a bomb on my plans

Later