We will definitely miss George too, he was very helpful over the past 5 years with our winemaking endeavor. He was instrumental in getting us into making wine from fresh California grapes and like some of y'all up in the Northeast we too have lost are only source of grapes. We hope that someone...
Hey y'all fellow Texans, we are north of Grapevine up here. We just put 1500 miles driving down around y'all tasting at the wineries that participated in the October month long Texas Wine Passport. I recommend everybody check it out, we recouped the passport fee after the 2nd winery!!
Our...
The link provided by @NorCal is a great resource, it is used by many!! Now we wished that you had asked before picking the grapes so you could have tested the Brix and pH to see when the best time was to pick them. Then you could have had more time to get any extra chemicals to help along the...
Just like what Johny99 says, ours freaked us out the first time too. We picked then crushed and destemmed added kmeta it was bright green when we got home and pressed then it turned brown when it finished fermenting and we racked it you can tell it was going back to a straw color becoming a...
Unless someone else can give you better advice I think watching ebay more might be beneficial. The search that I did is showing a new one for $3,200 wow our smaller ratchet press was less than $400. Just my observation the handle has been replaced and if you look at the receipts there might be...
@DazedYeoman88 we tried looking through our notes or lack of and came to the summary that we added all sugar and whatever honey to get S.G. to the level indicated.
We are trying to work out the kinks too I guess our plan is for Saturday morning early. As George says if the truck gets to TX Thursday and he allows a Friday pickup I'm trying to see if I can leave work early to avoid the line on Saturday.
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@Johnd
did you get the email?
From FVW: "We just got word that the this years fresh grapes will be leaving California on Tuesday October 3rd. We are expecting to receive them on Thursday, October 5th, but based on previous experience, we may or may not receive the grapes on that day. As such...