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Good point and I forgot to mention it...many hybrid vines don't like sulfur.

I'll say it again if you are east of the Rockies....MANZATE & SULFUR, MANZATE & SULFUR and more MANZATE & SULFUR until you are withing 66 days of Harvest....if its raining a lot every 7 days, if normal rainfall every 10 days, if very dry a 14 day interval. After the 66 day phi switch every 10...

Looking at a Rinieri AI 15 or the Braun LUV primarily for hilling and downhilling winter protection and secondarily weeding during the summer. Moving away from roundup use if possible. Pros of the Braun: Looks to be heavy duty comes with cultivator blade many additional attachments...

Brick packaging may be an option for bottles. I get corks from Ganau for about 9 cents each, buy by the 1000 count bag.

Looking for suggestions for implements to use to hill up the vines in November. No one else around here uses this practice but I am getting tired of replacing 30% of my vineyard every year. Time to do what works in the Finger Lakes and Ontario....they grow the same vinifera as I so may as well...

We had pea to marble sized hail one year...Chardonnay, Cab Franc and Merlot had some nicks and cuts but they healed over and by the time harvest all was good. No significant issues in the winery....

If the ph of your water is low you will want to add hydrated lime with your copper to help prevent leaf burn. DM across some areas in the east has become resistant to pretty much everything except copper.

Japanese Beetles can be easily controlled by Sevin XLR Plus...2 quarts/acre is the dosage for good control per the label. If you are going to maintain a vineyard of 3 acres you should be buying most of your chemicals from an agricultural supply company not Home Desperate. Sevin will run you...

Sorry to hear that, I got a neighbor like that except I was here first, but he is still a major PITA. He wanted to play hardball so I point blank told him to his face that if the vineyard and winery are not financially feasible I will more than happily sub divide the land and put some of the...

Based on your location in southwestern PA and being a meteorologist I can assure you that hybrids and native labrusca should be your dominant plantings...I'd be very leery of planting vinifera other than maybe Riesling in your region of Penn's Woods....its just too cold there. You might be...

Trust me after trying to rush things along for 5 years listen to what Masbustelo tells you. Control the weeds by hand or with chemicals but keep a dirt strip 2 feet wide for the vines to grow. Your new vines do not need any competition for nutrients or water. Spray for mildews, Manzate and...

Remember Vinifera grapes become immune to black rot infection 5-6 weeks after bloom and hybrids are usually 4-5 weeks. Thus if bloom is in mid June (now) you can pretty much stop treating for black rot by late July.

I have a commercial vineyard in eastern PA and am a licensed pesticide applicator...now repeat after me.....CAPTAN DOES NOT WORK TO CONTROL BLACK ROT! If you are raising grapes in most of the eastern USA and fighting Black Rot you should always be using Manzate. Start at 2 lbs/ac when shoot...

Hi Greg, I know this is way late but I used to own that press and the trick is to bring the pressure up slowly...there is no way to rush it. You have to take you time...if memory serves me right it was almost 60 minutes time to get the pressure in the bladder to equal my household water...

GDD might play a role but last year and again this year we are ahead of normal mainly due to overnight low temperatures being elevated due to excessive rainfall. The key missing ingredient is sunshine....our growing season GDD were way above normal last year but continuous cloud cover and rain...

Selling a GAI 6 bottle gravity filler from Prospero. Also have a 90 gal Nalgene tank with stainless steel bulkhead 1.5" TC fitting and a multi tiered table to allow gravity feed of wine to the filler. Its a pretty slick setup...and if you get good at it you can average about 600 bottles per...

Without knowing your location it looks more like typical winter kill. Your new shoots at the base like that are indicative that the buds, canes and likely the trunks have suffered serious damage over the winter or even possibly during a spring frost. At this point in the year you can probably...

Add sulfites the day before, on the day of bottling check the sulfite levels again and you might be surprised that much of it is bound up already...if so add again to your desired level, actually go 10 ppm higher than your desired level and bottle...that extra 10 will be bound up by O2 that is...

To follow up on my earlier post Maryland last year was looking at forcing wine producers in the state to own at least 20 acres of grapes or other fruit in cultivation for production and if they owned less than 20 acres they would need to use at least 51% of the fruit sourced in Maryland. Seems...

Technically speaking as the law stands today in PA its against the law. Is it being enforced today or tomorrow or some day in the future? That uncertainty represents a lot of risk to build business model on. NJ tried to stick it to micro brews, and I think MD is doing something to clamp down...