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About a week ago, I destemmed the last of my lomanto harvest. 7 vines yielded 55 lbs destemmed. If it wasn't for the birds getting under the netting and a cat falling through the netting knocking down some clusters, I could have made 8 lbs per vine. These vines are young, planted in Feb 2010...

Hi Gang, I'm trying to determine how many ounces of grape concentrate that I will need to finish a 3 Gallons of lightly oaked Blackberry Port. Port wines are usually around 8-12 brix. I always do a test taste of various degrees of sweetness but I wanted to make sure I had enough concentrate...

I started my Meyer Lemon PEE a couple days ago. I used the slurry from my 1G Scuppernong wine, nothing. I took the slurry when I still have 5 brix remaining on the scuppernong. Added additional yeast last night and still nothing. I'll wait for a day or two. Just curious, you think the...

Surfing the web and just found out, Discovery channel has a new show, BrewMasters. The show will air tonight, 10pm et. http://dsc.discovery.com/ It should be interesting. Regards, John, Cypress Texas

I've recently changed all my wine bottling to Bombers (aka, Belly Busters) and crown caps. It was more of a cost move. So far, I've bottled two of my wines this way. I'm using oxycaps and able to fill the bottles 23-24oz Are there other users using this method? What's been your...

What interesting times we live in. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/8034602/Prime-French-vineyards-left-bare-after-wine-mafia-strikes.html Regards, John

I needed to blow off a bunch of vacation between now and the end of the year. So, I'm taking this week off. I had a bountiful crop of blackberries this year, 4 plants 27 1/2 lbs. Reserved 2.5 lbs for jam. 24 lbs landed into the fermentor, thawing. The plan is to make a 3 Gallon...

Stumbled onto the site a few days ago and joined. This past weekend, I just started a 1 Gallon batch of Muscadine wine from Darlene grapes. Everything is progressing nice and slow. I have two muscadine varieties planted in the yard, Darlene and Late Fry. Darlene is just about done...