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I recieved my grapes after not hearing a word from them for several weeks and filing a chargeback with my bank. Got 7 5 gallon buckets of frozen must with 2024 stickers all over them on top of 2023 stickers. The must is perfect. 24.2 brix with a PH of 3.45. These should make great wine. Not...

I ordered 200lbs of 2024 Harvest Petite Syrah grapes on October 17th. Emailed, texted and called several times to find out about delivery time with zero response. Finally got tired of trying to reach someone so I filed for a chargeback with my bank. That afternoon, suddenly the grapes shipped...

Nope. That's not correct. I had 230lbs (23 gallons) of fresh Cab Sauv grapes and yeilded 13 gallons. You got a good yeild from what you had.

He didnt give you a reason why they crushed the grapes and sent them in buckets instead? I expect mine to come in buckets because I don't want to crush 200lbs of petite Syrah and paid for crushing. Since these grapes are smaller than others I have done I expect there to be lots of grapes...

Oh and winegrapesdirect.com also ships grapes from the livermore area as frozen must buckets. Checking out their pricing .

They do run another site that sells frozen must buckets from the previous years harvests. I believe its Grapesforwine.com. and its around $120+ a bucket to buy the frozen must. There is about 60lbs of grapes to fill a.6 gallon bucket in my experince. Stems in must is normal and happens when...

Yes. It allows the CO2 out without letting air back in.

I just ordered 200lb of Petite Syrah from them. I am waiitng on my order as the Petite Syrah are suppsed to be harvested on Monday. Stems in must is normal when you use a crusher/destemmer to crush your grapes. I get them in my must all the time when I use a crusher/destemmer. They are...

Here is a pictuee of my pumace.

I figured out what my issue was. I freaked out when bunches of air was sucked into my wine not realizing it was CO2. I also didn't let it sit for 20 minutes and them restart the pump. It got up above 600 on the pump gauge this time and I was able to draw just short of 14 gallons from 200lbs...

I have a smaller 5 gallon bladder press I have used before. Just started doing larger batches. I am doing a Sangiovese today which is also thinner skins. I have 200lb in a Brute. I was able to pull 14 gallons off of 200lbs that were in my Wineasy so I am thinking it may fit. I will post...

I am looking to pick up a variable capacity tank from Speidel at More wine to reduce the amount of Carboys I have to have. It would have to remain in my garage in Southern California which gets quite hot in the summer/early fall because my wife hates all of the carboys in the kitchen of our...

Good to know. I would love to hear what you find out.

My season is coming to an end. Did 4 batches this season. 1) 200lbs Zinfadel - had to dump. 2) 200lbs of Cab Sauv - in secondary going through MLF 3) 400lbs of Sangiovese - in two fermenters right now 4) 320lbs of Syrah - just pitched yesterday I'm rhinking I need to squeeze one more in...

Thanks for the tip! I will have multiple carboys sanitized and ready.

To extend my time on skins to draw nore body, aroma and flavors I do a 3-5 day cold soak soaking the grapes in 5 gallon buckets eith Lalkzyme EX in tubs of iced water. I then let it warm up from 35-40 degrees F to 60 before pitching yeast. I like Clos wine yeast for my reds and it takes off...

This math seems off. Doesnt make sense. I did a 200 gallon batch with my 5 gallon press and it took 3 pressings. Yeild was 13 gallons 9 was free run and only took up 20 gallons of my fermenter. There was plenty of room for the cap to form.

An ok. So I will have to plan for 2 pressings then on my 200lb batch

I was able to get this bladder press for $500 from Aliexpress. Its a 10.6 gallon 40 liter press. Has anyone used one? How many pounds of grapes can you press at once with it? Will it hold 200lbs?

Sorry, that was a typo. Its 3.53.