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Anyone with any inside information on grapes this fall in the Philadelphia region? Don't see any price lists posted yet. I called Gino Pinto's last week, they had no prices yet and no arrival date. But they said they would have grapes. Keystone only has Italian juice buckets posted in the...

Big hello to everyone, hope all are doing well during covid. So far been able to bob and weave and avoid the virus here. Haven't been here much and just realized my email address with WMT was ancient. Thought I had resolved this awhile ago but apparently not. But here we are at another...

Edit: Sorry just saw someone else posted this. Will we see the cost of lugs come down? I think they went sideways last year. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/16/business/grape-surplus-cheap-wine-trnd/index.html

Every harvest I'm pretty good at planning somewhat ahead and having everything needed. Except distilled water. End up using plain old tap water. Very rarely have distilled water on hand when something calls for it. 5+ years of wine making with several batches both each fall and spring harvest...

Getting a later start this year than usual and I'm passing on the SA grapes. Been working on the house and May will work better for me at this point. But dang, out of S.Africa, S.America and California the S.African grapes are the best quality and cleanest clusters. Next year I'll get back...

Chillin today, letting my 57 year old body heal from 8 days of construction, remember I'm a computer nerd by trade, well not any more, and have not been this physical in quite awhile. But I had put off renovations to the third floor exterior of my house for about ten years. Have gotten many...

I haven't been around too much the past few months and when I have I seem to be posting in wrong threads and not really keeping up with conversations. Little unfocused with major changes these days. Pretty much been working straight since I've been 13. Now at 56 and after 20 years at company...

New in my basement is a nice new Vinmetrica sc-300. Wasn't expecting this. Fred and BJ thank you for helping Lori with this. It was actually the one thing I wanted but couldn't pull the trigger myself. Reading the manual now.

Going to treat and process my new hungarian barrel(thanks @mainshipfred) this weekend. Read quite a bit and have no issue with getting the barrel ready. (Yet) First wine in the barrel is going to be a sauvignon blanc. I know some wouldn't oak this but my oaked sauv blanc from last year was a...

Article in NYT about micro wineries: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/dining/drinks/enfield-wine-company-john-lockwood.html

Purchased current Hanna pHep 4( I know my first mistake) three years ago for $114. It won't calibrate at this point. The replacement electrode is $59. I found the same model meter new for $84 and it comes with an extra electrode. Do I leverage my original investment and get the new same model...

Being that a barrel will be arriving within the next 30 day and although I've read many of the threads here, and a few articles, I still have a few questions from those with experience. First humidity? I don't have a humidifier in my basement. Would controlling the humidity help with barrel...

I came across a Seguin Moreau oak barrel for $25. Looks to be around 25 or 30 gl. I haven't checked it out yet in person. What would be the things that would make you not purchase this? Looks like the whole/opening has been somewhat sealed. I know nothing about barrels.

Probably known information to many, but I found this interesting as I plan to go down the barrel route this year at some point. http://www.foodandwine.com/wine/wine-barrels-oak

My recent pinotage is the first time I have separated free run and press run. The free run looks good, tastes like it went through MLF already and has no activity. The press run even though it has been racked off lees is solidly degassing/fermenting and/or MLF. It has a lot of lees again...

What is the % of insect tannins in the average grape batch? Didn't notice these earwigs in SA grapes until after looking at photos. we inspected the grapes pretty good and didn't see these nor notice during crush. I've seen insects in almost every grape batch I have done from California...

Going to have to try a wild ferment one of these days. "For the first few days of fermentation it’s the more dominant wild non-Saccharomyces species that dominates. This is the heart of the wild ferment: The yeasts produce interesting flavor compounds and textures, and begin the work of...

Just reserved 8 lugs of Pinotage from South Africa via Gino Pintos in South Jersey. Grapes are due in the last week of March. Still deciding what to due from Chile in April. Maybe another carmenere, I just opened last weekend a bottle of 2 year old carmenere that never went through MLF and...

Decided to push the envelope on my wine making boundaries this weekend. Did a bit of googling and came up with a few recipes for onion and garlic wines. Considered a beet wine, but decided that will be next winters boredom project These wines will be for cooking and marinating, but I've read...

The only reason i posted this link is because of the main photo. I'm mesmerized by the press and barrels. https://news.google.com/news/u/0/headlines/section/q/wine%20making/wine%20news?ned=us&hl=en&gl=US