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I'm working up my plan for my fifth year with Marquette and what I want to do with it, and reviewing previous years, tasting notes, etc... and the one thing I'd really like to do with this wine - but so far have been unsuccessful - is to make it *POP* with more fruitiness! I'm shooting for a...

I've always made smaller batches that fit in an 8 gallon airtight primary fermeter. This week I started a larger batch (~25 gal) in a Brute, covering it with a towel to keep insects out. I'm planning to press after 8 days of skin contact time, but toward the end of that 8 days my SG is going...

I've been measuring Brix and pH every other day on my three rows of Marquette. The first row is on TWC and the other two are GDC. The TWC row has consistently been about 2-3 brix ahead of the GDC rows and been looking great; today it measured 25 brix and pH is 2.87 (9/3 and 9/5 it was 24...

It's been 6 years since I put my first row of vines in the ground, and I've had three years of harvest now... things are coming along! I've pruned to about 8 shoots per foot (on each wire) in accordance with some of grapeman's advice here. From there, I've always just let the shoots grow and...

Hi - I harvested my Marquette the other day, slowly starting to get more fruit here. I picked a little on the early side after dealing with wasps and rot last year... pH 3.00 TA 13.5 g/L SG 1.096 Anyhow, I have my fruit split up into three different primaries, and I went to make an...

Hi Folks - Marquette vines, about 5 years old now. I pruned a couple months ago here in MN, and buds are really starting to push and open up now. The books and pictures and slide decks I read about pruning make it sound so simple, but when I'm standing face to face with a vine, it feels...

I racked three different reds tonight, all of which were started in early Jan and clarified (SuperKleer) in late Jan and have been sitting in the cellar for the last 3 months. They all had a sharp bite to them and when I measured the TA on them, all were pretty high: RJS Cru Select -...

It's about time to bottle my Rhubarb wine from last spring. This is the second batch I've made. When I clarified last year's batch with Superkleer it completely cut out the pink color and left me with a golden/yellow wine (see attached pics); love the wine, just would have liked to keep some...

Picked my Marquette here in MN today... Feel like I still have so much to learn! Just the second year I've gotten fruit on my first 14 vines; I have another 16 that should produce for the first time next year. 65 lbs grapes, yielding 46 lbs must, 25.3 Brix, 1.20 TA, 3.24 pH. Two...

These black spots showed up about two weeks ago on my Marquette berries in my small vineyard in Central MN (near Twin Cities). Anyone have any thoughts on what this might be? It doesn't seem to be getting any worse. I dealt with a little bit of black rot last year, but was better...

Hello everyone. I've poked around this forum for a few years on occasion; great stuff by everyone. I've got about 35 Marquette vines in the ground. My first row is coming into year 4, second row into year 2. Last fall I made my first home-grown batch of wine ever - it was only about 1.5...