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I think it may be time to harvest the Marquette, but I have been waiting for the TA to drop, but it hasn't changed much in a couple weeks. 8/30/22 Brix 22, pH 3.15, TA 13.5g/L 9/10/22 Brix 24, pH 3.27, TA 14.0g/L Should I wait for the TA to drop, or just go ahead and pick? Some...

Any idea what these dark spots are and what to do about them? These are on some four-year-old Marechal foch vines.

This is my third year for my vines and hoping to to get a crop to harvest this year. They look healthy so far and I had been treating with Mancozeb up to this point but stopped because of the pre-harvest interval. So what can I use up to near harvest? Thanks in advance,

I am new to growing grapes, planted these vines 3 years ago, Marechal Foch. Is this a disease.? See attached pics Thanks in advance.

I have about 15 gallons of Marechal Foch(grown in Darke County Ohio) that I fermented and racked into carboys about 4 weeks ago, when can I start malolactic fermentation and what would be a good bacteria?

I am about 1 1/2years into wine making and have made a half a dozen Wineexpert kits, two years of strawberry wine, and now this is the second year of making Chambourcin. This year's Chambourcin: Picked 93 lbs of grapes from local vineyard. Destemmed and crushed by hand, yeilded about 10...

I am looking for recommendations for next steps before bottling. TimeLine: 9/28/2016 picked 100 lbs of chambourcin grapes 9/30/2016 Manually destemmed and crushed resulting in 9.5 Gallons of must, TA =0.75%, BRIX = 20 Added 4.5 oz powered sugar per gallon to raise the Brix Added...

This was my first experience using the morewinemaking aeration kit.* I have 6 gallons of a Winexpert kit ready to bottle and thought this would be a good opportunity to learn the Free SO2 measurement process. The instructions were easy enough to follow, but I am wondering about the rate of...

Some Background: I started wine making in January this year with some WinExpert kits. They went well, then made a strawberry wine from strawberries this summer, again went well. Then I met a fellow down the road from me here in Ohio with a 4 year old vineyard, helped him pick grapes and he...

So I am wondering how important degassing is if the kit is bulk aged with an air lock for several months before bottling. I just started my 4th W.E. kit, and following the instructions, it is about time for the degassing and clearing step. On the first kit I did, I degassed using the...

After having made 3 WineExpert Kits, I have just started my first non-kit wine. Since it's strawberry season, I started a 3 gallon batch of Strawberry wine. Lot's of strawberry wine recipes out there, and the majority of ones I reviewed recommended an acid level of 0.65%. I don't have a PH...