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That's great that it turned out Okay, just a note for future, if the wine is still degassing on it's own without stirring you should put the filter back on for a while, but if you want to put a bung in what I do is use a gardening twist tie around the top of the carboy then across the bung...

Depending on the style of Merlot wine you would like to attempt, it all starts with the grapes or "must" you use. You should research on this forum: Crushing & destemming Testing for Brix, PH & TA and methods for adjusting. The use of the different sulfites Temperatures for different stages...

Today I'm going to press my Merlot that I grew in my Back Yard Vineyard. Didn't get as much fruit as I would have liked for 5 year old vines, thanks to bunch shatter, I'll have to take measures to limit the amount of shatter next spring.

Just for some information, your hydrometer reading was probably reading high because of the solids in the must, not only that but depending on your temperature of the must at the time, if it was higher that 60° then the reading will be showing 1 or 2 points lower than actual, which may be...

Generaly growth above the ground is matched with the same growth under ground, when it comes to a grape vine.

Welcome again from another Canuk, I'm From both Alberta (Edmonton) & B.C (Kelowna) It's a long commute.

Good choice to go with drip, if your vineyard rows are on any kind of slope, you should make sure to get Pressure Compensating drippers, but if it is flat don't worry about it. Good luck.:b

Drippers are a more expensive way to go but you can control the amount of water each vine will recieve. You can buy 1 gal 2 gal or 3 gal emitters and depending on the type of soil you have, setting your requirement, this will determine which ones to purchase and how long to run the water each...

Use mature leaves, the young leaves all you get is chlorophyll, and make sure there has been no cats spraying the bushes?? Use about 2 Tsp chopped leaves to a cup, steap for a few minutes, it's not a strong tea and it's more for ailments, or you can dry some of the berries and use 1 tsp of...

At the B.C. House; my merlot might have had some winter or early fall freeze damage, because the basal buds have broken out first, instead of at the ends. Oh well, it was only the 1st year growth & ahead of schedual for some of them, so I'll prune back to the main stem at the fruiting wire...

Looking good Wade, yum, Cassis (in other words Black Current). Just keep an eye out for the aphids & spider mites, they love all types of current leaves. By the way the leaves make great tea. _________________ Randy

Welcome to Wino's are us. That Lime on the Coconut sounds good though, how about a recipe? ____________________ Randy

Hi Kolson5 Welcome to the forum. Never thought of milk wine, must be smooth with all that latic acid. At least there's no malolatic fermintation needed. _____________ Randy

Some of what I've made Just off hand, thinking of some of the wines I've done are Various grape kits such as: Riesling liebfraumilch Chardonnay Entre Duex Mers (Bordeaux still white) Many Merlots Danish Port - in which some bottles were kept for 14 yrs then made into Maderia (and...

Slope of Vinyard Nk'Mp is very fortunate to have their vineyards in the only desert in Canada (Lots of sun days so they get great sugar & balance of acids, tanins & colour) they can grow all the Bordeaux style garpes there. Possably they may have to compensate for being a little too hot...

Ehrenfelser in the Okanagan Yes, Ehrenfelser is a fairly common grape, it makes a tasty white wine, sort of between a Gerwurztraminer and a Riesling. Summerhill Winery makes a good one. As you are aware, the grape also makes a great drinkable candy (Icewine) that is becoming quite...

Thanks Luc, last time I made Rhubarb wine was in the 80's and I wasn't pleased with the result and the thought of injesting all that oxalic acid. But now I just might try the freezing method, (It was a shame seening I have strawberry rubarb growing like weeds) Randy