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Doing something totally new this year with my muscadines, both bronze and purples. Instead of fermenting on the pulp I decided to just crush and press both the types of muscadines and use this juice to make all white wine. It is amazing how much different the juice of my Isons taste when there...

If you live in south east Louisiana and want to take a ride to my home you can come by and pick 1-2 buckets full of Ison variety purple muscadines. They are excellent for wine making as that is what I do with most of them. Let me know if you are interested.

A friend of mine gave me 10 lbs of Black Spanish grapes. What can I do with them? I do not feel like making 1 gallon of wine with it so I guess the question is what can I blend it with. My muscadines (red and bronze) will be ready in a month. Could I make a wine with the Black Spanish and some...

It looks to be another bumper crop of grapes on all my vines this year. This year I again pruned pretty heavy but I also added 6 inches of horse manure / bedding the entire length under all my vines and watered alot during our 30 day drought we had. Anyone in South Louisiana in August /...

With sleet all over everything down here today I decided it was a good time to bottle all my 2013 wines. 14 gallons of semi sweet white muscadine 7 gallons semi sweet red muscadine 5 gallons semi sweet Dragon's Blood This was my 1st batch of Dragon's Blood and I really like it. Great...

Today, while back sweetening my 2013 blackberry wine I accidently put to much sugar in and got a back sweetened SG of 1.050. Way to sweet for my taste as I was aiming for 1.01. So my question is what type of dry wine would be good for blending with this blackberry to tone down the sweetness...

I have read many of the fpac topics already listed but have not found what I was looking for. How would someone go about making a red muscadine fpac for flavoring before bottling? I figured the grapes would have to be simmered in order to get the red color from the skins but how do you go...

I am going to use this as a mini blog of my journey into opening my home based winery called Rodrigue Family Wines (name may be tweaked at some time). I will be focusing on semi sweet muscadine wines made from only muscadine juice or muscadine juice blended with other juice. Examples possibly...

I am starting the process of opening up a small home based winery based on my muscadine wines I make. In researching the web the last few days and reading everything I can find there is one thing that becomes apparent very quickly. There is very little information on the web, youtube included...

I have way more Ison purple muscadines than I will use this year. Anyone in south Louisiana needs some. All you have to do is come pick them. Actually I just shake my vines and they fall on a tarp. Then just fill your bucket. Send me a PM if you want some.

Picked 160 pounds of bronze and purple today. Gave away another 120 lbs and have another 200-250lbs left on the vines. Now I have to figure out what blends I will be making this year.

I just recently started drinking this wine from Finland and love it. Now I want to make it. Would using a sweet cherry fruit juice concentrate (from homewinery.com) accomplish this. It is 16% ETOH / vol so I could just use EC118 and up the sugar load and possible back sweeten with more cherry...

Here is my new favorite white muscadine wine favorite 1 bottle of white muscadine wine back sweetened to 1.01 SG. To this at bottling I add .75 mls of peach extract flavoring to each bottle. The peach flavor comes through but is not over powering so you can definitely taste the muscadine and...

I started out with 2 - 5 gallon buckets of crushed ripe Loquats (japan plums down here in south Louisiana) with the juice adjusted to SG 1.10 with sugar. I fermented on the pulp and skins (no seeds) for 5 days with Cote De Blanc yeast. From this I pressed out 3 gallons of juice. To this I added...

I have my 2013 batch of Loquat wine fermenting away. This batch will be with 25lb fruit, some white grape concentrate and possible substitute some of the sugar with some honey.

It is that time of the year again. Time to prune back the 7 muscadine vines I have. Checklist: pruners cold beer radio - 60-70s mix station temps in the 70s I am ready to go

I just finished weeding my grapes and blackberries and low and behold I have new blackberry canes that have busted up through the soil.

I just picked my 1st strawberries for the 2013 season. It is hard to beat straight out of the garden.

I was playing around tonight with blending my sweet white muscadine wine with other wines and came up with 2 that I really like. 50/50 sweet white muscadine/chardonnay and white muscadine/pinot grigio.

While I was bottling up 6 cases of my 2012 sweet white muscadine wine today I remembered I had a bottle of Peach extract. In each of 12 bottles of wine I put 1 ml of Peach extract. It came out pretty good with just a hint of Peach flavor.