Recent content by Allan Kyle

I’ve now done wine from kit, grocery store grapes, and concentrate. I want to move on the fresh wine grapes. there is a place near me that once a year caters to DIY and sells grapes in larger quantities but below commercial. I’d like to buy quite a lot but use them over time. Can I freeze...

Southeast PA. I am trying to figure out why I got the cold shoulder first time I tried this a while back.

Thanks for the responses. I'll reach out to the local wineries, perhaps through the association and see if I can get a couple on board for starters.

Thanks. In PA, we can have 5 satellite locations, as well as buy and resell up to 50% wine from another PA winery. The law allows for just this sort of co-op and relaxes rules on staffing and paperwork to encourage it. when I first approached local wineries many years ago (prior to the current...

Not commercial yet, but at the shows I have been to many places will ask you to fill in your name/address/email/etc. as you queue for wine tasting. This weeds out those just looking for a quick free drink and helps speed any sales/build a list of potential customers.

Thanks. Recent law changes in PA seem to make this sort of thing viable, although I would need to register as a limited winery (nominal $750 cost). That was the recent impetus. As a novice winemaker myself, I would just jump at the chance to engage with the other local wineries.

I have a wonderful, quaint, and very old property in a wine making region of PA. It happens to sit right at a very highly visible road frontage and which is heavily trafficked location seeing hundreds of thousands of annual tourists. There are at least 10-20 wineries in the immediate vicinity...