The 2024 crop year

[mgmarty]

Yes, my second vintage from Foch this year. They’re in there fourth leaf. They grow like a weed and then just shut down in August. They complete veraison uniformly. I made wine last year when they hit 26.5 brix. Wine so far is wonderful. This year Im going to let them go, see if i can get a better flavor profile.

 

[wood1954]

This is how uneven mine are. I don’t think I’m over cropping the vines, I guess I’ll find out in a month or so.

 

[mgmarty]

My Pinot Noir ripens like that. Still a month away though, they come around.

 

[ChuckD]

I got my netting up yesterday before the rain. I still need to add some clamps, but it was easier than I thought.

only 14 vines have fruit. It’s not much, maybe 50 lbs of grapes, but it represents three years of blood, sweat and tears! I’m not letting those damn birds get my grapes!

 

[Snafflebit]

The Zin berries keep growing I won’t make wine with the Zin this year but it is nice to see what to expect
Zin 1

Future site of Zin 2.

 

[tjmeyer]

Zinfandel has sized up. Brix=21 Harvest season is right around the corner!!!!
I am new to growing Zin and the berries are huge, compared to Cab or Merlot.

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WHOA my zin is nowhere near that size per berry. But I will say that our average cluster has a lot more on it. Interesting differences.

Looking great!

 

[Rice_Guy]

The LaCrosse wine makers are having a picking event this weekend. A local winery is planning on having picking crews tomorrow, ?whites? Feels late, Briana has turned foxy and Edelweiss has been falling off vine.

Apple is also falling. Have cleaned up eight bushels off two trees. What will I do with all the volume? A productive year.

 

[Hazelemere]

The LaCrosse wine makers are having a picking event this weekend. A local winery is planning on having picking crews in a week. Feels late, Briana has turned foxy and Edelweiss has been falling off vine.

Apple is also falling. Have cleaned up eight bushels off two trees. What will I do with all the volume? A productive year.

grind and press the apples with a bit of sulphite. Then chaptalize with cane sugar or unpasteurized honey with pectic enzyme nad nutrient with no water.

 

[Rice_Guy]

I have been picking at the local winery, plus a bit of my own. This year some varieties have suffered with rain several times a week/ less spraying than desired. A new favorite disease resistant hybrid variety is Louise Swenson. It has survived as well as my Briana and has less foxy flavor.

 

[Hazelemere]

grind and press the apples with a bit of sulphite. Then chaptalize with cane sugar or unpasteurized honey with pectic enzyme nad nutrient with no water.

grind and press the apples with a bit of sulphite. Then chaptalize with cane sugar or unpasteurized honey with pectic enzyme nad nutrient with no water.

I should get 60 bottles of Russet apple wine unblended from just picked 300 lbs of apples so I'll chaptalize 2/3 of it with cane sugar and 1/3 of it with unpasteurized blueberry blossom honey to blend with 2nd run white wine ...first run grape skins and 1st run juice sediment with pectic enzyme flooded for 2 days with no sugar or water with a bit of sulphite and then repressed with no sugar or water, both wines treated with bentonite after 6 day active ferment and then blended into the non-honey version Russet Edelzwicker 2024 and the blueberry blossom honey version Russet Cyser Pyment 2024 with sulphite to ~25 to 30 ppm.

 

[tjmeyer]

Late harvest Malbec looking good so far! I'm estimating about 180L that looks pretty much like this. Zinfandel wasn't as happy, I think they needed more water or perhaps better timed watering

 

[Snafflebit]

Red stems. That is good and ripe Malbec

 

[tjmeyer]

Red stems. That is good and ripe Malbec

Very. I suspect the brix will be quite high, but could also make for a great back sweetener too.

This was taken during sunset today, so the light is a little weird.

 

[mgmarty]

Foch is harvested.
Beautiful morning in Utah
Ph 3.83 Brix 26.6

 

[Hazelemere]

Foch is harvested.
Beautiful morning in Utah
Ph 3.83 Brix 26.6

16.4% alcohol. Blend it if you want table wine to get the alcohol below 15. It should make a really good port.

If you go for port which I personally would use EC-1118 yeast from a starter e.g. on apple juice with nutrient containing vitamin B. Your Foch look really good and should make a killer port.

 

[Obbnw]

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Foch is harvested.
Beautiful morning in Utah
Ph 3.83 Brix 26.6

Looks great.

Picking the grapes and seeing them piled in buckets is the highlight of the season for me.

 

[Musissa]

Foch is harvested.
Beautiful morning in Utah
Ph 3.83 Brix 26.6

Beautiful grapes! I pre ordered 1 vine of Foch, hope my husband loves it and allows me to order and plant more of them! I followed your advice.