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Young wine can often times be sour because it’s young and not ready yet and it will age out. So a sour tang does not always mean you...

One of the wineries I worked for years ago had 4 big open top round stainless fermentation tanks we had one of those drivable lifts and...

Yuck that’s cold, I’m just glad my minimum temp is like 40 at night and my vines are all past budbreak so it’s less risky the rain is...

I picked SO4 grafted to Zinfandel with hopes that the vigorous rootstock would help reduce millerandage on the clusters. I toyed with...

For me, 1103p is the bulldozer of rootstocks it overcomes every obstacle you put in front of it it’s a workhorse alongside St George...

It is usually done manually we do our fermentations in Macrobins and will do punch down in the bins 3x a day with a steel punch down...

No it likes dry meager soils it does well in sandy soils it’s okay with moderate wetness but it will rot and get crown galls easily in...

SO4 tends to like dry soil it doesn’t like wet soils but it also suffers from sensitivity to magnesium deficiency

SO4 is a good vigorous rootstock, very rapid growth even when young I had vines make fruit the second year no matter how many times I...

Nice I’ll take a look. Also big tip the best yeast for Zinfandel in my opinion is RP-15.

Zinfandel is my favorite red grape since we don’t do Zinfandel at the winery I have a local contact I get Zinfandel fruit from and make...

We had two inches - mostly overnight- and now we are scheduled for intermittent showers. Loving every drop!

Nice choice, if I was planting a white grape vineyard for a winery I would do Marsanne or Roussane really popular choices and grow well.

Just finished planting 350 Sauvignon Blanc (1103p rootstock )last night... I'm very sore! 😔 But worth it! Gotta get more white grapes...

It’s a good rootstock for basically any kind of soil. It is tricky though as it has some quirky habits. Generally speaking most of my...