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Received this email today if any of you are interested.................. Juices of Wonder from the Land Down Under Are Here! Announcing the arrival of our 2019 Australian Juice Pails! Our 2019 Australian Juices are here and ready for pick up or orders. Since we have already sold...

To all of you here on WMT, what a blessing you have all been to my wine making journey!! I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

I receive a newsletter periodically from my grape supplier in CA, this is the most recent, and includes a recap of the growing season conditions, pricing, and indications of future pricing in the market. Of course, this is just their take on the grape market, but felt it was worth sharing...

It's been a little hard getting my head into winemaking gear this year. The flood waters have subsided and my property is nearly back to normal. The heat in the south hasn't subsided at all, normally by mid September, we're sporting highs in the 80's, but the mid and upper 90's haven't relented...

Admittedly, I'm not much of a fruit winemaker, but every now and then I do dabble, and decided earlier this year to do a strawberry wine. I live about 15 miles from Ponchatoula, LA, home of the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival every year, an area well renowned for its strawberry production. I...

As part of my planned consolidation of winemaking activities, I’ve been weaning off of my smaller barrels in favor of getting one large barrel per season. As a result, I have a neutral 6 gallon Vadai barrel and stand that I’ve no further use for. It’s a few years old, neutral as mentioned, in...

Very sad to see them go, just got this news in an email: Effective November 30th 2018 Fine Fine Wines and Dallas Home are closing. This has been a tough decision for Janna, her family, and the staff here at Fine Vine Wines and Dallas Home Brew. George sold his first wine kit March 3rd, 2003...

Sad news today in the winemaking world...........got my original equipment set and first wine kit from FVW, and lots more after that. Spent a fair amount of time on the phone with him in those early days, trying to figure out this whole winemaking mystery. George was always willing to offer good...

Finally recieved word Sunday that the grapes were ready to be picked, here's the plan for the '18 Cab. The grapes are on the way, harvested yesterday, loaded into the refrigerated truck, and on the road. BRIX is reported to be in the 26 range and pH in mid / upper 3's, pretty much par for the...

This is the latest, first time I’ve ever seen it. It doesn’t show up occasionally, but EVERY time I try to read a recent thread. And no, I’m not an Android user, this is on my iPad. Seems that the impenetrable Apple OS is getting its ass handed to it. @TxBrew , is somebody working on this stuff?

Finally got on the ball and ordered my new crusher / destemmer and stand. The stand arrived this morning and the machine is scheduled in this afternoon. Apparently shipped from different locations, the stand was Fedex and the machine comes by freight later today. Bit the bullet and got the...

I’ve been working for a few years to develop a unit capable of performing some of the repetitive tasks performed during bottling. First couple of units didn’t really perform all that well, but the latest endeavor is showing great promise of late. While I’ve made significant investments of time...

My 2017 plan is to make one batch of wine this Fall, a blend with Cab as the predominant component, Merlot and Petite Syrah making up the balance. One new 30 gallon French oak barrel for aging. My normal supply choice is frozen must, which increases my per bottle cost for freezing and shipping...

I clear all of my reds from grapes with Father Time, but tend to use some agents to help the whites along, and to make sure they are crystal clear. In the past, I've used bentonite in either primary AF or just after completion of AF, followed shortly by a dose of chitosan, it's always worked...

Although the spelling isn't perfect, it's too close to ignore, there will be no more happy endings for Coiling Wang in St. Tammany Parish!

I've got a boatload of red grape wines in various stages, enough that I'm skipping spring reds this spring to do some whites, and do reds this fall. Going to do two different whites, fermented in carboys, under airlock, in the wine room at 57F, all in order to try to preserve the fruity...

Thought our forum members favoring the northern wines would like this. Really a pretty cool story and concept for a one man show. Check out the wines and the winemaking notes as well, there's learning here too. Enjoy @ibglowin !! http://www.maloneywine.com/our-story/

With such a diverse group of wine drinkers, spread out not just across North America, but all over the world, it would be nice to see what wines folks find and collect. I realize that we have a "what's in your glass tonite" thread, but waiting til someone cracks a bottle open sometimes means one...

I'm not one who has trouble moving carboys and small barrels around, but I figured, why push my luck. Moving stuff around the wine room is pretty innocuous, moving 8-10 carboys from the fermentation area to the wine room, a distance of 50 or 60 feet, a little more tenuous. I picked this...

The winery is back in business, the frozen must from Spain has arrived! A very long journey from the vineyard in Montsant wine region in Catalonia, northern Spain, via Toronto, where it sat for a few weeks to get through US Customs, and a truck ride down to southeast Louisiana. Most of the...