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Wade... St Croix grapes can suffer from too long of a hang time too ...herbaceousness .. others, like Richard said get foxy. Al... My concords are always EXTREMELY sour till very very ripe... then all of a sudden they turn sweet and great... a bit of foxyness though ... but I only make jams...

Hi Al... (also hi Richard....) Wow.. it has been a looooog time since I was here..... I too took refractometer readings today.... My Marquettes are at 19 to 21 with seeds just starting to turn brown ... won't be long now... My St Croix are only at 15 but will be picked at...

Fantasticpresentation and great vineyard Appleman !!! At the end of the presentation it indicated "end of year 2" so I'm assuming that your vineyard is now 2 years old. Were those grape cluster pictures and the wine in the carboys from 2nd year vines? If so,how many clusters did you...

Hi Rick... Sounds like a very memorable trip!! Jancis Robinson has made some very interesting DVDs. I have seen some of them. She is quite a woman. I read somewhere, a few years ago, that she is one of only 10 female "Master sommeliers" in the world. Andrea Immer is another one... very...

rrawhide... If I were you, I would definately "help" him out next year! Sounds like it could be fairly "rewarding" as well as fun. I used to live in Clovis (next to Fresno)before moving and retiringto Nebraska in early 90's. I was CFO for a large ag lender and got to meet lots of...

A lot of the free SO2 will be "bound" after the alcohol fermentation is nearly done and by the time you would normally add the mlf culture. Like Bonnie Joy said, there are cultures that can handle high free SO2 but I bet your free SO2 will not be all that high when the time comes to inoclulate...

Hi neighbor!! I had the exact same problem with my 600+ bottle cellar. Humidy was "ideal" at 70% in most of the cellar but the bottom2 feet of racks were 88% humidity... just enough to get mold growing on corks. I was afraid to use bleach (bleach + cork = TCA??) but I did use a...

Hello... <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I'm new to this site... just joined a few weeks ago and am enjoying reading the posts very much! I'm about to start my "Batch #51" and was looking for something unique and different and I also want to try my...

Thanks everyone for the very warm welcome! I'm a bit "technology challenged" at times. I was trying to sign in and just see the "new" posts since my last visit but was doing something wrong. I think I have it now, just use the "active posts" button (I was trying to do it via the RSS...

Hi Everyone... I'm new to this site. Just registered yesterday. I am currently retired and live in Nebraska (lived in New England, Nebraska, California, Arizona, and now again in Nebraska). I have been making wine for a few years (but have consumed wine all my adult life { and a...