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Found lots of info on damage to canes and buds and a little on trunk damage but pretty much nothing that explained how I can tell if my vines are dead and need to be replanted. Most buds bit the dust in winter, and my oldest vines (maybe 6 or 7 years old) have zero buds, and every cane that I...

Picked grapes from garden, cold macerated for about 3 weeks, 8 litres into fermenting bucket, sugar added to get SG up to 1.095-1.10, acidity adjusted downward, tannin adjusted upward, campden added, day or two later added 1/2 dose of yeast nutrient and then hydrated some RC-212 and we were off...

Was away for a night and wasn't here to punch down must and keep my eye on things, just got home and what was a bubbling cauldron late Wednesday night is now completely still. Checked SG and its at 1.025. Gave it a good punch down and stir, but doesn't look like there is any more activity from...

Primary ferment on 2 gallons (maybe 2.15 galllons or so) of must going strong. Grapes are in open-topped nylong bag, bag in a 5-gallon plastic bucket...lots of grapes spilled out of bag already so some must floating around. When it comes to press time at the end of primary ferment, any...

Was home last night for day 2 of primary, 2 gallons of must bubbling away like a freshly opened can of coke, but I'm stuck away from home from last night until tomorrow evening, will the lack of punching down for this long cause a problem? 5-gallon bucket covered with cheesecloth, and I further...

Grape juice had been pressed for weeks in fridge, adjusted sugar, acidity, tannin, tasted great and could have drank the juice as it was. Fermentation started yesterday, and I know I can expect an assortment of aromas...but some that stuck out to me were a little bit of nail polish remover...

Grapes have been crushed for a while now so pretty juicy, just added pectic enzyme. How much juice should I expect to have once this is pressed? I expected to barely get a gallon, but right now looks like I might get more, and in any event it looks far to full to start fermentation as is...

Hi all. Love wine, love gardening, figured I'd throw in some wine grape vines. Got enough this year for a small batch, so figured what the heck, and ordered a winemaking kit and some accessories, just to give it a try. If its too undrinkable then maybe I'll convert the kit to making beer...

Managed to grow enough wine grapes to give me what appears to be a little over a gallon of juice. Odd mix of baco noir, pinot noir, and some merlot and cab frank. Have it partially crushed in a large pot sitting in my fridge, and just received kit to make a 1-gallon batch. Juice is very...