I have been making wine for 54 years and making it properly for 26 years after reading Emile Peynaud "Knowing and Making Wine"
I grow and pick organic grapes, sweet cherries, sour cherries, raspberries, blackberries, apples, pears
I have come first in 2 farm fair wine competitions 2 years in a row out of 200 wines (grape and fruit) with organic raspberry wine from my own raspberries.
I grow:
Siegerrebe
Ortega
Regent
Marechal Foch
Madeleine Angevine
Reichensteiner
Van, Ranier, Bing, sour and wild black cherries
2 kinds of pears\
blueberries
Russet (Boskop), transparent, King, Cox apples
seedless grapes ( 4 varieties)
plums
I make meads, pyments, cysers and melomels from unpasteurized honey - Fireweed, blueberry, raspberry, blueberry, wild flower,
I use dried Oregon elderberries and medium toast American oak cubes with Lalvin RC212, Pasteur Red and Lalvin Bayanus yeast.
I make oaked fruit ports with raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, French Cassis or French Chambord.
I've also made fruit sherries with Turkish figs and sultanas, pitted fresh Italian prune plums, dried elderberries and premium rum on medium toast American oak.
I've also made wine from yellow plums and dandelions
I am or have made wine from these grapes:
Agria
Barbera
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sauvignon
California Muscat
Carignane
Chardonnay
Chenin Blanc
Gewurtztraminer
Grenache
Lemberger
Madeleine Angevine
Madeleine Sylvaner
Malbec
Marechal Foch
Mourvedre
Optima
Ortega
Petite Sirah
Petite Verdot
Pinot Gris
Pinot Noir
Regent
Reichensteiner
Riesling
Ruby Cabernet
Sangiovese
Sauvignon Blanc
Siegerrebe
Syrah
Wurzer
Zweigeltrebe
I grow and pick organic grapes, sweet cherries, sour cherries, raspberries, blackberries, apples, pears
I have come first in 2 farm fair wine competitions 2 years in a row out of 200 wines (grape and fruit) with organic raspberry wine from my own raspberries.
I grow:
Siegerrebe
Ortega
Regent
Marechal Foch
Madeleine Angevine
Reichensteiner
Van, Ranier, Bing, sour and wild black cherries
2 kinds of pears\
blueberries
Russet (Boskop), transparent, King, Cox apples
seedless grapes ( 4 varieties)
plums
I make meads, pyments, cysers and melomels from unpasteurized honey - Fireweed, blueberry, raspberry, blueberry, wild flower,
I use dried Oregon elderberries and medium toast American oak cubes with Lalvin RC212, Pasteur Red and Lalvin Bayanus yeast.
I make oaked fruit ports with raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, French Cassis or French Chambord.
I've also made fruit sherries with Turkish figs and sultanas, pitted fresh Italian prune plums, dried elderberries and premium rum on medium toast American oak.
I've also made wine from yellow plums and dandelions
I am or have made wine from these grapes:
Agria
Barbera
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Sauvignon
California Muscat
Carignane
Chardonnay
Chenin Blanc
Gewurtztraminer
Grenache
Lemberger
Madeleine Angevine
Madeleine Sylvaner
Malbec
Marechal Foch
Mourvedre
Optima
Ortega
Petite Sirah
Petite Verdot
Pinot Gris
Pinot Noir
Regent
Reichensteiner
Riesling
Ruby Cabernet
Sangiovese
Sauvignon Blanc
Siegerrebe
Syrah
Wurzer
Zweigeltrebe