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So I have been stirring my pinots a couple times a week for a month and a half, as I go thru the MLF process. Tonight I see a couple of my 1 gallon jugs have floaties, :HB The big carboys dont have this issue. So is this ready for dumping, am I contaminated, or what do you think is going on...

I searched the forum a bit and see others have had wine overflows. I am trying to figure out from the knowledgeable on how bad I screwed up. My Pinot Gris has gone thru primary. Last night I racked it into carboys and I see no more bubbling at the airlock and I assumed it was finished. My...

FTC I appreciate the thoughts, I have lots to learn, I really have no idea what I am doing. I have made a few batches of wine, I did the dragonsblood and skeeter pee from this forum a few years ago. I got lots of grapes and read a little on Pinots and went after it. The 4 carboys of pinot...

So I racked off my lees tonight, ended up with 13 gallons, two five gallon carboys full, and one with about 3 gallons in it. I see above FTC said he was going to top off with some store bottles of wine. How does one get rid of the air space? Shall I get 3 one gallons bottles and fill...

Not trying to hijack your thread FTC The pic below looks like a lot of gross lees also, but it was about 30 minutes after pressing and putting in carboys. You can tell which bottle I filled first. The pic above was this morning at about 11 hours. When I get home tonight I hope the lees...

I am starting my MLF tonight on my Pinot Noir. I pressed it last night as the Primary was done. Since I got a packet of bacteria that does 66 gallons I am going to also MLF my Pinot Gris. I stopped at the local wine shop yesterday and they sold me Viniflora Oenos, they told me it was the...

I used a tub much like yours on my first go round this last weekend. I cut a round hole in the center of one end of the tub and put a barrel underneath it. You can see the round hole in this pic under the crusher

I have dabbled with fermentation for a long time, in the 80's I was making a little beer, I have done some wine from berries, made some skeeter pee, hard cider...... I certainly dont call myself a wine maker. 4 years ago I planted a little 320 plant vineyard. This is my first harvest. I...

My killdeer came back again this year, same row, just a couple plants over and nested again. Must be a wine name in there somewhere for the bird that keeps raising her babies in my grapes. Just a couple photos below, hope to harvest some grapes soon. I have made my fair share of mistakes...

I have been puttering in my grapes for a few years, this year will hopefully be my first harvest. I had always intended on selling my grapes to the home wine maker as I didn't think I would have enough grapes to sell to a winery. For the last couple years when I cross paths with a winery I...

I don't know what the instructions say, but that is what I spray my apple and pear trees with. I typically spray them 5 or 6 times from time I can see fruit and when I pick it. I don't like worms in my apples :w:w:w

I harvested about 75 cuttings from my buddy a couple month ago so I could fill in the holes in my vineyard that didnt survive the transplant last year. Out of 320 plants I had 34 that didnt make it. Some of them had fairly large root structres, I dont know how they didnt survive. Today I...

I put 5 inch post on my 150 foot rows and they look plenty big, they havent carried any weight yet though.

I have read the process to callus the cut and get roots. I did none of that and think I had around 75% + success on plants rooting and growing, and I am not sure some of the ones that didnt grow were not planted upside down. :slp When I dug up my plants from where they spent their first year...

My animal problems to date have been Voles moved in, took some effort to burn, smoke, poison, dig them out. Finally got that colony wiped out that set up at the edge of my vineyard. I wanted them dead before winter and they girdled my plants. I can see deer most days from my property...

Yes, irrigation is laying on the ground.

A couple weeks ago I planted the post. I enjoyed the how to angle your post thread, it was very timely. I over dug my holes and just angled them in the oversized hole as opposed to trying to dig a non vertical hole. I set 8ft, 4 to 5 inch diameter wood post for ends, and 8 foot metal line...

Very timely post, I hope to set post this week

I guess I am officially done babying them for the season, they looked cold this morning.