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It's the season for bubble and fizz. While staring at a glass of Blanc de Noirs I started wonder how a colorless wine can be made out of a red grape like Pinot Noir. Oh-yes, they say it is easy: just squeeze the juice and dump the skin. But anyone who actually made wine from grapes knows that it...

I just came across this hydraulic fruit/wine press for less than $500 on Amazon. It looks really interesting and I wonder if anyone has tried it. https://www.amazon.com/Hydraulic-5-3Gallon-Stainless-Making-Filter/dp/B07Z7GG54J?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A3DAE64FDS550S&th=1

My Hanna HI98128 PH meter stopped working after 8 years of use. This model has been discontinued by the manufacture and the newer models are much pricier than before. At the same time I see lots of cheap products on Amazon with mixed reviews. I'd like to hear some recommendations from someone...

How do you store your bird net? I store it in a plastic trash can inside a shed. During the past winter, mice chewed a hole through the can and nested inside the net and made a stinky mess of it.

Has anyone seen this? What is it?

What do you guys do with cicadas? I noticed quite a few of them on my vines. So I put on my bird net early just in case.

I had severe fruit drop in August on most of my vines, especially those heavily-produced ones last year. The berries just fall off from the stem with the lightest touch, some of them are not even fully purple. Any theory why this happen? There are some excessive hot days (100F) this summer, I...

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What kind of carboy bun/seal is this guy using?

Within a few weeks after moving into a new home with bigger basement space, I racked up a couple of grands of power tool bills between Home Depot and Amazon. To put them in use I am embarking on a wood working project -- making my own wine racks. I figured many people here had been there and...

We all know the cleaning drill: hosing, sloshing, brushing, draining a bunch of large tubs, buckets, carboys etc... Do you have a designated wine making cleaning station other than just a sink in the laundry room? Show me ;)

My harvest this year are in three three-gallon carboys now. MLF just completed and not racked yet. I am debating whether to rack it before adding oak beans. I am trying to minimize oxygen exposure because I don't like my wine too soft, racking would also call for topping off which I have no...

This weekend I noticed some of my marquette berries turned purple, does Marquette veraision come this early?

What causes this color change? sunburn? infection? It only happens to this Concord vine on every one of its clusters.

This is black rot, right? When you see this infected shoot while pruning, do you cut it off?

New shoots have grown to a few inches tall and the rain just keeps coming. Mancozeb is not good in rainy weather as I understand, so Capitan 50 is a better choice? What do you do in a wet spring?

What bug is this?

So much rain in DC area that my vines developed air root. 20180603_135856 by berrycrush posted Jun 5, 2018 at 8:38 PM

Who has done field grafting to change the vine from one varietal to another? Tell me about your experience. I am thinking of changing my Cab into Merlot.

What hour is best for harvest wine grapes, morning?