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Especially Frontenac, they have so much color in them there really isn't a need for enzyme. I tried a whole cluster press one time to make a rose, what a disaster that was. Came our as dark as a commercial merlot...

Location: 2020+Carboy+Rd - Mount+Prospect, 60056 Date/Time: Thursday, September 22nd @ 11am - Seriously? Carboy Road... come on!

Hi Vranac, what kind of wine is it? I'd suggest adding it to the barrel for at least a few months and putting your new wine into the demijohns. Even three short months in the barrel will drastically improve your wine. How big is your primary barrel? BTW Vranac is one of my favorite wines!

Brianna is a great "tropical" tasting wine, reminds me of Edelweiss, I think they may be related, none the less its a good cold hardy white. I like it dry but my wife likes it a bit sweet... unfortunately not making any this year...

Just got a email from a buddy of mine, there is going to be a wine cooler auction in Mt. Prospect next week, here is the site: http://www.jaysugarman.com/site_image_gallery.php?auctions_id=1671 1500 coolers for sale, all sizes, hopefully some good deals, he said he thinks the auction is...

again, head first kind of guy... I now have 3 presses! If one is good, three are better hahaha

All the advice given here is excellent, not much to add, but I'll give you a funny story about my first wine from grapes, like you it was a Merlot. So because I'm a head first kind of guy I decide if I'm going to make wine I'm going to buy 500lbs because theres not point in make two cases of...

Totally agree with both opinions.

I was out in the Lodi AVA the first week of August, the OVZ was just starting to go through veraison, brix were still unreadable. The crop was looking very good, nice sized berries. As the previous posts had stated the harvest will be late, we are expecting our fruit to arrive the second or...