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I have purchase all my vines from Double A and highly recommend them. They really know their stuff, grapes vines are their main business (maybe their only business), their service is excellent, and they ship at the right time (the spring). They carry a wide selection of vinifera, hybrid and...

I have a similar table top press and it works OK. The main problems is that the small size means you have to do more pressings. Also, my hunch is that a screw type press like this does not do as good a job as a ratchet press. But if you don't want to spend much money or you have limited space...

I bought one from E C Kraus for just under $200. It works, but it is not great. The "tray" is the oak base, and the juice tends to flow back under the base as you press. Also, there is no easy way to press easily into a bucket. I have to create a make-shift stand out of blocks of wood or...

I've thought about the balloon idea also, but you really need to have materials that are food safe. Remember what ever goes into the carboy could be there for months. The mylar probably would not effect the wine's flavor, but the rubber band used to seal it probably would. Perhaps the...

I have an audio CD of an excellent presentation on cleaning and sanitation that Jef Stebben did at the 2008 Winemaker Magazine conference. If you listen to his talk (and some of this is in his slides, see below) you learn that B-Bright (or things like it) is not technically a sanitizer AND that...

Quaternary ammonium will sanitize (if that's the cleaner you are using), but I think you need to rinse after. I use One Step to clean bottles, and then follow by putting the bottles in my dish washer, with no detergent, and running a sanitary cycle which gets the water temperature to 160F...