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Greetings all, I‘m in New York City and have been making wine from grapes from California and Chile for several years. I want to try some locally grown grapes, around 1000 pounds. Can anyone recommend vineyards in New York, Finger Lakes, Long Island etc. that will sell whole fruit to home...

Greetings all, Curious if most folks keep an extra VC tank to rack directly into or rack into another container, clean the VC tank and pump back into the original tank? Thanks, Tom

Greetings all, Made the switch to VCT from glass. I have Marchisio 150L and 100L tall tanks. Can I use the sticker scale on the tanks to measure the volume of wine? What is the scale measuring/how is it graduated? How far below the rim is the 150/100L level? Thanks, Tom

My second year making wine. I have this grayish-purple stuff in the neck of my carboys. It appears to have risen from the wine, sliding up the top of the carboy and collected at the neck. Not seeing anything else weird in the wine. I crushed 6 crates of California Cabernet Sauvignon and...

Hello all, I am doing two batches from Chilean grapes. Four crates each of Merlot and Cab. The grapes looked great (from what I've read and heard). I crushed them on the afternoon of Sunday May 24th into two 10-gal buckets (7.5 gal Merlot and 6.5 gal Cab.) mixed in 2.3gm potassium...

Hello all, I'm gearing up to get started and bought a used press and crusher. Both were used last fall. It looks like there is some greenish mold or mildew on the wood of the press basket. How should I clean it off? Also, the crusher has a wood frame and hopper. No mold. Do I need...