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Hello winemakers! As you can read from the heading, I have a very severe problem with one of my wine batches: It smells intensively like glue, so I guess that somehow I got too much Ethyl acetate into it. I have heard that the only way to get this scent out of the wine is to boil it up to 77°C...

Hello there! Which sugar would you recommend to back sweeten a wine? Is there any significant difference in taste? And are there any non-fermentable sweeteners that you could recommend? At the moment I am using sorbitol syrop but I have the impression that it leaves a weird aftertaste...

Hello there! I have a batch of rosé must with a ph level as low as 2.8 and acidity of 11.5 gramms per liter. That's definitely too much acidity for a wine, so now i wonderhow to proceed... As sparkling wines are usually quite high in acidity I wonder if that would still be suitable for a...

dear community! its been a while since ive been posting here... but still hope you can help me with this issue: i have an issue with my white wines: they taste blunt, indifferent, not fruity at all and i wonder what might be the reason, and how i could repair the wines... wine no. 1 is low in...

Some of my vines show strange symptoms: At a corner of my vineyard the red varieties get red leaves, the white varieties get yellow leaves. It only affects older leaves, the younger ones look healthy. I wonder if this is some kind of nutrient deficiency. What do you think?

Hey there! I'm in trouble with winemaking! I just finished my first bottle of homebrewn white wine and it just tastes disgusting! But from the beginning: - I had a spraying accident in my wineyard and burnt a lot of leaves, so less clusters formed and they formed later than usual. - I let...

Hey People! I'm looking for a vineyard calendar that helps me doing the right work steps at the right time. Things like when is the best time for pruning, fertilizing, mowing, thinning etc., ideally using the BBHC-Code for orientation, as ripeness varies a lot depending on the location...

After long absence in my vineyard (I had to work for exams) some of my vines had symptoms I've never seen before. Interestingly only old vines were affected and neighbouring younger vines weren't. So I guess that it is not a nutrient deficiency. The leaves would be small, wrinkly and have a...

I stunmbled upon carbonic maceration, the anaerobic whole-bunch-fermentation that is used for Beaujolais Nouveau, in the grape growing forum and having a small research on it, it seemed to have some advantages that could be useful in fruit wines: Reduction of acidity and higher fruitiness. I...

Hey! I'd like to replant some 1-year and 2-year old vines because I'm just not happy with their location any more. Some have been planted before I put up the trellis and now I figured out, that I planted them off the rows :slp some others are very early ripening varieties which I happened...

Hello! I wonder if anyone of you has ever created graft unions himself. I'd like to create graft unions from cuttings of a rootstock variety (don't know the variety, but probably 5BB) and a vinifera variety (don't know the variety either, probably Riesling) that grow on my property...

Hi! I'm not quite sure wheter I'm in the right subforum for my question! Moderators, please move it to another subsection if you think so! Elderberrys Are ripening around my home and I'm considering making elderberry wine from the european elderberry (Sambucus Nigra). I'd like to keep the wine...

Hello! I would like to know which hybrid variety you think delivers the best taste. I've been trying really a lot of different wines made from european hybrid varieties so far (I'm from Europe and you won't find american breedings there) and none of them could compete with a well-done wine...

Help! I have a real mess going on in my vineyard: Every single vine turned dry and brown! But See yourself! I think it must be poudery mildew. Because of the brown leaves and the steady rainfall and relatively high temperatures we have at the moment. But what...

The less grapes per vine, the better the vine quality. At least that is what the books say. But can you make outstanding wine from vines planted in large distances? I actually never questioned the books, I mean, they were written by wine making professionals who definitely knew more about...

Hello! I'm about to plan the expansion of my small wineyard and got stuck on training systems: I was considering using a horizontal or sloped training system for my vines (such as T, V, or simply / -shape), as they seem to have a lot of benefits (as long as I don't want to use heavy...

Hello! It might be quite unusual to have someone from Europe posting here, but as all german-speaking wine-making forums seem to be dead or deserted I want to give it a try! I'm planning to lay out a small vineyard in Austria, central Europe, and I am still looking for a red grape variety that...