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duh, sorry i'm late answering this one, but we continue to use the 70 gal flex tanks after 10 years. Great for blending and pumping out of. Cleaning is now easy with One Step and hot water. We did use a soda ash solution for some nastier stains and it worked fine. We did a full flush after cleaning.

just got another delivery of Turley. The longer you allow their wine to breathe, the better and better it gets.

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Austin Hope is on deck for us to get back to their wine (haven't got to that case yet)., Epoch is already on the rack along with Torrin.

Although we like the J Lohr Pure Paso (nationally distributed), we were able to get some wines available just from the winery. We REALLY like Turley and have re-ordered another 6 bottles already.

we still have a 500 and several 600s still available.

We focused on the small wineries and the products only available at the winery. We didn't want the wines that we could pick up at home.

we are really digging the Paso AVA right now, especially the Zin and Zin blends. We just dropped a couple of shiny pennies for 10 cases from 14 wineries. We are already reordering more. What sold the wines were not only the craft of the wine, but also how the sale was made, particularly sitting...

if you don't already know, having a winery is a LOT of work. A LOT OF WORK. 1. get your wines made and make them so that they can be replicated (vintage to vintage noted). 2. LEARN how to sell those wines. Make sure you are telling the customer what they will be tasting BEFORE they taste it...

it was great to meet you and sorry that i talked so much. I could talk for days about winemaking. Have to let you know when we are in the area and we can pop a cork with you.

if you are making elderberry from the berries, reach out to ffemt. He won a gold medal for his elderberry. To say the least , it was amazing....

we do an Elderberry wine, but since we are making 55 gallon batches at one time, we source the 100% elderberry single strength juice. Careful when backsweetening as the wine will give off a vitamin flavor. After fermentation, the wine will obviously be kinda tart, so our trick for this is to add...

no that was when we purchased the assets of another winery which the owner had passed. We were going to double out production and move to a bigger facility, but the owners of the facility had different ideas. We wanted to rent the spece, but the facility owners took that to mean that they would...

getting close to starting our 11th year (October) so a look back on this year is due..... Although we are still selling well, we down about 5% due to some issues outside of our control. A tornado in June went through our area and the State Park which we are named after suffered significant...

yes we have tanks and equipment still available. PM me for a list.

selling off some larger capacity Variable Capacity tanks and equipment: 4 - 1000 liter tanks with lids and gaskets 8 - 600 liter tanks with lids and gaskets 2 - 500 liter tanks with lids, gaskets and stands 3 bowl stainless sink 8 foot stainless table for the 1000 liter tanks 2 - 8 foot...

thanks for those positive words Chris!! Although the main goal was to have a tasting room and bigger production area, we are learning from friends that the overhead costs and relying on employees may not make this dream in our cards. Our CPA advises against it. We are of the mindset of "if it...

time for our annual update. Into our 10th year of operation, we have had to negotiate some challenges this past year..... Obviously with the government caused inflation, our expenses took a hit, but we were able to offset this by cutting back on labor by doing less, but more profitable...

Welcome Cody. We are in Westmoreland county (Greensburg/Irwin/Murrysville) and we started out on this site as a hobby winemaker and went commercial 9 years ago. Lots of good people and good info on this site. My uncle lives south just outside Brownsville on the river.

bottled 5 + cases of Lemon, filtering 25 gal of Marquis, filtering the last of the Cinnamon Pear and Chocolate Elderberry and the Noiret. Starting another 50 gal of Lemon, Need to bottle 6 cases of Port. And all this and more will be gone by Saturday evening. Sunday morning, we start again.....