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Hi everyone, it's been a while since I was on here! Been busy with life and work and all that, but still making wine. Actually in the first stages of starting a small winery with my brother! I'm looking for a manual grape crusher/destemmer. I'm looking at a bigger harvest than last year, and...

A local brewer in Lexington, KY is being sued by Magic Hat, claiming that their logo copied Magic Hat's logo. I don't see much of a resemblance myself. Follow the link for more information and to see the logo yourself. (And sign the petition!) http://www.westsixth.com/no-more-magic-hat/...

I bottled this 3 months ago, and I ended up trying a bottle tonight. I know I should give it more time, but I don't have a lot of stock like some of you guys! I do limit myself to 3 month intervals though. Anyways, this one has already dropped out a lot of wine diamonds, and that is a good...

Breaks down all the different types of wine: http://visual.ly/different-types-wine Click on the smaller picture and it brings up a larger version. It's handy to have them all layed out like this to get an overall picture of the wine world.

I've been wanting to do a MM kit, since it's the only brand available to me that I haven't done yet. Then I check out the finevinewines website and they are having a St. Patrick's day sale - 10% off a bunch of MM kits. I was hoping my next kit would be an Amarone. The sale includes the...

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/12/16/Winemaker-to-harvest-in-the-nude/UPI-41781355687082/ Traditional winemaking is interesting and all that, but I'm sure a pair of shorts wouldn't hurt the wine too much.

So this is the second time this has happened to me. I make an order online and keep track of it through FedEx's website. I see it has been delivered (on front porch it says). I come home, nothing there. The first time no one was home, so who knows what happened? I called FedEx, and the...

Back in September, I harvested my Nortons and only ended up with 14 lbs, so I decided to use them in a juice bucket. I thought grenache would be a good match, but in the end I decided to try a petite sirah bucket. The mlf just finished up and I racked it tonight. Of course I ended up with...

I've been making wine for several years now, but I'm a newbie to kits, I have 4 under my belt now, and I'm noticing differences in racking between what I used to make and kits. What I notice is that when I rack from primary my auto-siphon seems to struggle to stay unclogged, particularly with...

I bought some VP-41 MLF bacteria for this fall's reds. It says it's good for 66 gallons, and I only have 12 gallons, so I'd like to keep it for some spring stuff and maybe even next fall. I'd say I used a little more than I needed in each carboy, but I have plenty left over. So, is it safe...

I've just recently discovered that spanish wines are fantastic, I had a tempranillo about a month ago that was wonderful, and tonight I had my first Rioja, which is also pretty good. I had another spanish wine about 2 years ago, and apparently I chose poorly, because it was awful, can't...

So I decided it was a good day to harvest my nortons, I have 9 vines, but we had a late frost, and only one produced anything significant. It's somewhat sheltered, unlike the rest, which are out on the trellis. I ended up with just shy of 14 lbs, with 13.5 lbs of that from the one vine. I...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagnina_di_Romagna This is my wife's favorite wine, it's a sweet red. To me it tastes like a soft red wine that happens to be sweet, not my favorite, but she loves it. I looked at the island mist series, but this wine doesn't really have a fruity taste to it...

I finally found a place near-ish to me that does both juice bucket and grape orders. But, this year the grape interest is low apparently, and when I placed my order they told me it was not certain that they would get enough orders to make it worthwhile. I was really hoping to get some fresh...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe Not a beer maker myself, but I enjoy a good one every now and then and found this cool.

Both of my CC kits that I have come with labels, and I was thinking about using them, but I don't want to unless they come off easily. I have label paper that I usually use that peels off easily, making it easy to reuse the bottle. Has anyone used these? How easy are they to get back off...

I love Norton as it is, but it is definitely needs long term aging. So I had the thought that maybe a blend with another grape would yield a good wine that could be drank a little earlier. The first grape that came to mind was grenache - low acid, low tannins, seems like a good fit to...

My CC old vine zinfandel kit had a packet labeled "Enzyme Packet". What exactly is this? Pectic Enzyme? It says to add it in step 2, after primary fermentation.

I'm looking for opinions on how neem oil works as a fungicide. It claims on the bottle that it works for black rot, powdery mildew, and a few others. I bought a bottle since it wasn't too expensive anyways, and I applied it today. It says to apply every 7 days until infection is under...

I stumbled onto this article: http://www.1winedude.com/why-do-local-wine-and-local-food-hate-each-other-a-late-dispatch-from-dlw-2012/ which is something I have wondered about before as well. This is also discussed in "The Wild Vine" concerning the lack of Missouri wines in Missouri...