Recent content by julcharl

Thanks for the reply. Your point on punching down makes total sense, good call. I have only white grapes so never experienced with the red wine ferment process. I won't oxidize the wine, I'll limit the experimentations! But when you say that your orange wine plan is the same as red wine ferment...

I want to try white maceration for the first time with the objective of getting an "orange" wine. There isn't much info and tips online about this but here is roughly what I would plan it. I'd be very interested in getting the thoughts of someone with experience making this type of wine. Grapes...

Thanks for the quick responses! It does seem like leafhoppers indeed. I can't find a picture that looks exactly like what I have but it's close enough. I'll try a few of the solutions suggested.

I have this issue on all my vines, mostly on basal leaves. There are black dots (eggs?) under the leaves, around the veins. And there are those tiny black-and-white insects as well under all affected leaves. I've been searching a bit and couldn't find exactly what that is. Any idea on what it is...