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Picked up the Merlot on Saturday and had it crushed into a bin that afternoon. Inocculated it Sunday and it's been gurgling along all week. Yesterday we had it down to 3 brix so it looks like we will be pressing it on Sunday. We pressed the Alicante Bouschet this past Monday and have a 59 gal...

Paso Robles is on the California coast half way between San Francisco and LA. We started wine touring there 20 years ago when there were about 50 wineries. Now there are close to 200. There are a lot of folks raising wine grapes and selling to winemakers. We got the phone call yesterday that...

Pulled a half ton of Alicante Buschet from the local vineyard yesterday and my wife and I crushed / destemmed it into our fermentation bin. We will be inocculating it tonight and we'll see where it goes from there. We are also waiting for the call to pick up another half ton of Merlot from some...

We currently have 45 Petite Sirah and 35 Cab Souvignon vines. We have room for about 250 more if we want to expand onto a really nice south facing ridge. We will be purchasing about 400 lbs of Merlot and 400 lbs of Alicante Bouschet to get started this year. We are picking up all the equipment...

Thanks for the welcome. We've been involved with many wine making projects in the central valley of California. There's one commercial winery we get to poke around and ask a lot of questions. We also have a grape growers group in our area that meets monthly. Two couples are in the process of...

Found this site and thought I would give it a try. My wife and I have been wine tasting and touring for over 20 years and currently have 80 vines in their second leaf. Next year will be our first harvest. We are setiing up our wine making operation this summer as we are able to purchase grapes...