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Last spring I planted six petite syrah vines that I acquired from a supplier in Santa Rosa. I think they were one full year old when I got them. I wasn't sure how I was going to train them, so I installed a metal t-post to support each and left the posts about 5' in height. Each plant developed...

I live in Chico, California. About six years ago I planted four Syrah vines to cover a 35 x 10 pergola attached to my house. As a side benefit to the shade I'm getting around four gallons of finished wine each year. In 2013 I lost the entire crop to powdery mildew, last year I treated the pm...

I bottled a home grown 2012 Syrah about two years ago. It was first attempt at making wine using my own grapes. The flavor was off, like it was oxidized. Only had a dozen bottles; so I put it in storage, laying down, until this week when I decided to try it again and,if still bad, dump the wine...

I have a small home vineyard with four, six year old syrah plants and six, first year petite syrah plants. I harvested a nice crop from the syrah vines about a month back. About two weeks ago leaves from all ten plants started turning brown and dropping and about a week later I started getting...

I harvested, crushed, and pitched yeast on Saturday afternoon on a back yard crop yielding around 8 gallons of syrah must. The brix was 23 (by temperature compensating refractometer) before and after harvest and ph was 3.73 which I knocked down to 3.65 with tartaric acid. 13% potential...

These are Syrah grapes from four plants in Chico, California. They were started from root stock, four years ago. Last year's harvest was small, but healthy and yielded about four gallons of drinkable wine. This year, the yield was substantially greater, I anticipated about 12-15 gallons of wine...

I had promised my family that we would make wine over the Labor Day weekend; my home syrah harvest was disappointing due to some powdery mold that showed up in early August. So I ordered five gallons of frozen, petite syrah must from Brehm Vinyards. The bucket arrived today and the stated brix...

Four and a half years ago I started four root stock Syrah plants on a pergola I built for growing and shade. Late last year I noticed that there was more of a crop than I had expected and decided to make some wine. I ended up with three net gallons. I harvested and fermented in mid-September...

I built a pergola next to my house and started four Syrah plants from root-stock four years ago. Last year I had my first meaningful crop. In our area, grapes are ready for harvest in late August and the outside temperatures remain very high through October. So we harvested, crushed, and froze...

I live in the Sacramento Valley in a hot climate. In the past two years, I've harvested and produced about five gallons of home grown Chardonney. But both years I've had disappointing results, the wine has a baking soda background taste. A friend believes that the problem is related to...