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Portuguese town flooded by river of ‘good quality’ red wine.

Here is a nice article about Wollersheim Winery, which has been making wines in Wisconsin for 50 years. They concentrate on hybrids now. At 50, Wollersheim Winery has a woman winemaker in the wings

The bad news is that, due to business travel and bad timing on fruit delivery, I am going to miss our vintners club crush. That is, I had ordered 300# of Zin grapes, and I will have to give them up. (It looks like other club members are stepping up to buy my grapes, so I don't think I will be...

I enjoyed this bit of reminiscing: Opinion: My father taught me about wine. Then his wine taught me about life

How did I not know about this before!? :? National Drink Wine Day

I just learned that there is a semi-popular board game called "Viticulture." Has anyone played this game: Viticulture

For the second year in a row, even: Same county tops healthiest US community ranking for the second year in a row

"Goode" oppportunity here! Who is going to compete? A winery will pay you $10,000 a month to work and live rent-free in Sonoma

A member of my local winemaking club is organizing a group buy for frozen must (red) and juice (white). I won't post all the details here, so please PM me if you are interested in participating. Briefly, we are looking at buying 5-gallon frozen pails of must/juice from some premium...

This evening, I happened to say the famous phrase, "Four score and seven years ago..." My wife said "Yeah, so what happened four score and seven years ago today, huh?" Some quick math, then I realized: Jeez, four score and seven years ago today was the end of Prohibition! Woo Hoo...

Yikes: Thieves stripped a Canadian vineyard of grapes the night before harvest

Because this forum is so rich in Canadians, I would like to extend my T-day wishes northward! Enjoy. :thg

I just got notification that our local wine club is able to source local juice this fall. We have our choice of Seyval or Vidal, neither of which I have had before. I might get both, but I already have two whites in process and one recently bottled, so I think I will keep it to one. Whaddya...

When I saw that Hurricane Hanna made landfall near Aransas Pass, TX, I couldn't help but think of our own @LoneStarLori. We haven't heard from her in a few years. ( In fact, the @Lo... doesn't even list @LoneStarLori as a choice.) Anyway, we hope you made it through okay, Lori!

Was anyone affected by the tornado-a-thon this weekend? In particular @hounddawg , are you okay? I think you are not far from where tornadoes were spotted, for example, in Jonesboro. anyone else?

Okay, file this under weird... unless anyone can help me understand. We found a bug on the floor of our spare bedroom, which was very odd in itself. I knew I had seen its picture before, so I captured it and set about searching on the intertubes. It is, I am now sure, a brown marmorated...

I have mentioned a few times before that there is a business near me that deals in used wine and whiskey barrels. There is a nice article in my local fish-wrapper about him and his biz...

Here is an article about the awards given for the best vineyards in the world (as ranked by The World’s Best Vineyards Academy, an industry group): https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/world-best-vineyards-2019/index.html And the website of the organization, with all 50 nominees...

I have heard many people that express that they either love a buttery Chardonnay, and disdain a crisp one, or the opposite. For me, these two styles may as well be two different wines, and I like 'em both! I am capable of liking a Cabernet AND a Tempranillo, so why can't we like both a buttery...

Last night, I used lots of high-quality nutrients (thin-crust pizza with roasted garlic cloves). Nonetheless, I detected large amounts of H2S activity. In fact, I checked on it many times throughout the night, and it kept on emitting H2S. This morning, I fed it additional nutrients (coffee...