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We picked, crushed and pressed about 250lbs of Blanc du Bois on 6 Aug 2016. About 13 gal worth of juice. Learned a lot this year like, its important to get the potassium metabisulfite into the juice quickly (so it doesn't turn brown). I did get the kmeta in the first 6 gal bucket of juice...

120 lbs of Black Spanish crushed and done with primary. Free run and pressed resulted in 7 gal. Got MLF going well (had to TA was 10.5 g/l. Next question, should I oak or not? French oak? Amount and duration for 6 gal carboy? Anyone out there making wine from this grape?

Murphy’s wine after Murphy’s Law (Anything that can go wrong will go wrong). The plan: My Vineyard is young and I will not get grapes next year but the year after should be somewhat productive. I went ahead and picked up a couple of 100L variable capacity tanks and decided to practice this...

I've read lots of discussion in the forums about variable capacity tanks, and most comment about needing to tweak the tank to use it for long term storage. After reading the article on page 36 of the Aug-Sep WineMaking Mag, I've decided to give it a try. My question for the forum is, does...

This is growing on a wild muscadine at the back of the property. Can't find anything like it on the web and I don't want it to get to my good muscadine and grape vines. Any ideas :a1

Tonight was my first attempt at watermelon wine. For reference I used two recipes. One from Jack Keller that he got from Norma Jean and Carole Darden's Spoonbread and Starwberry Wine book, the other was from Winemaker's Recipe Handbook (purple 101 recipes). The one on Jack's website from...