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Thanks Racer that is really helpful information. I will try and source those books now. Do you know what time of year you have to graft? Is it before the sap rises?

That sounds really helpful Racer! Hurry up with the rest of your course, and pass on the information! The reason we are thinking of grafting onto old stock is because we have huge numbers of very vigorous white grape vines, but we don't like the wine that we get from it, and very few, not so...

I have a vineyard of about 350 vines, of which about 100 are Sangiovese and 250 are white in Central Italy. These are very old vines, and are really struggling now, especially the red. It has been suggested to me that we could graft new vines on to the old root stock and in that way we could...

Slow fermentation Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I think there are several things that have come out here. First, we were always told by our neighbours that they added 25% white grapes to the red because it was good for womens kidneys! Actually, we only have had wine with the red...

Fermentation problems continued! OK. This is not as straight forward as it appears. the winemaking process in our part of Central italy dates back hundreds of years and you have to bear in mind that the system is based upon not spending any money on anything at all! So everything must be either...

I live in Central italy and make both red and white wine from our Sangiovese and trebbiano grapes. The vines are very old, and somewhat past their best! Last year, we made our wine with the local farmer, but both red and white wines stayed very sweet and did not ferment down to 0 as we all...