Wisconsin winemaker

[weaverschmitz]

Hi, I'm a backyard winemaker in the suburbs of Madison, Wisconsin. I have a small vineyard with 100 vines and a variety of fruit such as raspberry, strawberry, mulberry, cherry, rhubarb, and blackberry. My goal is to eventually make an ice wine. I've been making wine for about 8 years and I look forward to learning from others on this forum.

 

[Rocky]

Welcome to the forum, Weaverschmitz. That sounds like a very nice little vineyard and you certainly have access to a lot of fruit. What variety of grape, if I may ask? What wines have you made?

 

[Arne]

Welcome to the forum. Arne.

 

[sour_grapes]

Welcome, fellow cheesehead! Sounds like an awesome setup you have going there.

 

[LoneStarLori]

Welcome Weaverschmitz. You have a great back yard. You must have something turning ripe just about every month from Spring to Fall.

 

[winemaker_3352]

Welcome aboard!!!

 

[Julie]

Hi weaverschmitz

Welcome to winemakingtalk

 

[Snafflebit]

I often wondered what could be made from mulberry. Mulberry wine!

 

[GreginND]

I tried to make Mulberry wine back when I was in high school. It was a disaster. I'm sure I could make it much better today!

 

[jamesngalveston]

mulberry makes an excellent wine....if you can get them really ripe, its even better.

 

[weaverschmitz]

Primarily Frontenac and St. Pepin grapes. Yes, we are harvesting something from May to October. My mulberry wine isn't tuning out as I hoped so I'm adding Everclear and making a port. We'll see if that helps. Thanks for the warm welcome!

 

[cheesehead]

welcome fellow badger, plenty of help here on the forum, you will learn alot as well as be able to help and add ideas, prosit!!!