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Hi, I have been looking for a good yeast to make Amarone from high brix barbera grapes which we grow. For the last 2 years I tried B71 and bm4x4, neither of them worked. If you get to find a good potential yeast, I would like to try it

Have any of you started the harvest for barbera here in Nor Cal? What is the PH that you are getting?. The brix for my grapes is about 24 but PH is 2.95 and some started to shrivel

I was going to give you some to try, but we arei Nor California. I believe they provide all the above. Good luck 👍

Interesting, I would suggest blend with Touriga Nacional and that will take care of providing rich, dense color. BTW this is the grapes that we grow and know how dense the color is. Where are you Located?

Thanks for the info. I am planning to do one more racking and will add kmeta this week and will bottle maybe in October

I have wine in carboys since last September. I am using airlock with brandy in them. As I understand it, the airlock does not allow oxygen flow. Hence I don't see a problem in leaving it until next September

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll have to find the yeast locally and probably will add water as the ph is still very low.

Refractometer. They were almost raisins and very sweet

Hi, we had Barbera that started turning into raisins so we decided to make Amarone style. I started with high brix of 36 and used BM 4x4 recommended for Amarone. It worked fine until it got stuck at brix of 14 and then liquid is thick like a syrup. Any ideas or recommendations on what to do...

I think for us it's all done. But we harvested some to make more Amarone although they might be smok tainted but will give it a try

Looks like a plan. The weather should improve here too but we are getting the smoke from Mosquito fire. The grapes brix is 25 and ph is 3.3 but they started to shrivel so I think we are done for this season. Hoping for better one next year

Where are you located? Did you increase the irrigation?

El Dorado county California

We are located in the foothills in Rescue. It's a young vineyard so I am wondering how does the heat wave late in the season like this impact the grapes and the vines?

We have Touriga Nacional grapes that are not harvested yet. Although they are heat tolerate but worried about the impact of this latest heat wave.