A profile of an amateur winemaking club. I'd like to hear about yours as well.
https://winemakermag.com/beyond-the-basement/blogger/listings/jeff-anderson
Before you make a decision about whether or not to use commercial yeast, you should listen to this podcast:
https://www.guildsomm.com/public_content/features/podcasts/b/guild_podcasts/posts/all-about-yeast
Hint: The first yeast to interact with your grapes isn't the one you want!
I have been making wine for a long time and keep losing the angled metal tabs that allow my #25 wine press to ratchet. I'm pretty sure I'm hiding them on myself. Every few years, I have to buy new ones. How does anyone else deal with this problem?
Upstate New York
I plan to join the American Wine Society in January and pull together a chapter in the Capital Region of New York. There might be chapters around that would welcome you.
Contest
I would like to know if you were successful in scheduling a certification class. they are reight in my neighborhood. While waiting for the next Winemaker Magazine International event, which I have entered for the last two years, there is a big competition in Indiana that you can aim...