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This is my fourth year making wine from whole grapes. I've always done the MLF step because I read it makes a better wine. But is it really necessary? I'm not really fussy about my wine, and the extra step and expense of the yeast is bumming me out. This year I have 300 pounds of Noiret...

Hi everyone! This is my third year making wine from grapes I bought from a vineyard. Mostly it's gone surprisingly well. But... I have 25 gallons of Concord wine, and 10 gallons of apple wine in 5-gallon carboys in my root cellar. I re-racked all of them a month ago, put 1/4 tsp meta in...

I have looked everywhere, and can't find a disease or anything that looks like what some of my vines have... the The Botrytis Fungus is as close as I can get. My vines are 4-year old Frontenacs. There was one vine that never did well since planting, and was the only one that was having these...

Hi everyone, glad I found this forum! I have lots of questions, and there is SO much information here. Thanks!