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I've been growing crown gall, I mean Chambourcin, for the last 10 years. It has been a constant battle with crown gall where I end up retraining trunks every 2-3 years. Naturally this means I've never been able to achieve much more than a 25% yield. This year I'm trying something different that...

Quibble Hill Winery has announced they are selling all of their winemaking equipment. See the attached a pdf of their equipment list. The equipment is pretty small scale (good for very small wineries or a serious hobbyist) and upwards of 1/4 off what it would be new, so not an especially great...

A spreading invasive threat: Spotted Lanternfly Webinar from EABU Spotted lanternfly are a threat to over 80 species of plants and are rapidly spreading across the country. Join us this Thursdays at 11:00 AM ET to learn what you need to know! Tom Baker of Pennsylvania State University discuss...

August 25, 2020 4:30 PM Cation exchange and other winemaking practices for dealing with high pH and high TA fruit and wines Wines with both a high pH and high titratable acidity (TA) are problematic due to their increased likelihood of fault development. Most interventions to reduce either pH...

August 11, 2020 4:30 PM Biology and management post-veraison fruit rots. Botrytis bunch rot and sour rots are important issues in susceptible varieties starting at veraison. Join us for a discussion about the diseases, the role of climate (particularly warm, humid nights), insects, and vine...

This last winter wasn't particularly cold but it had some major cold events when the vines were not totally prep'ed for the depths of winter. We hit 4'F at the beginning of November last fall, less than a month after the leaves had fallen. This summer I've noticed some damage and root-let growth...

I don't generally have major issues with phylloxera damage to leaves in the vineyard, but they little buggers seem to really like the frontenac. I've been treating the issue as a nuisance but at some point in severity it must begin to impact the leaf's ability to photosynthesize and ultimately...

Re-posting an email invite I got in case anyone has interest. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-kae3CEZSfq3V5eHzAC7Vw Topic Enzymes in Winemaking: Activities, Applications, Actions Description Using enzymes can be highly beneficial for wine quality, it is...

In case anyone is interested, I got an email invitation that Gusmer is hosting a webinar on their OenoFoss spectroscopic analytical tool on July 23 at 10am pacific. This may be a little beyond the scope of many home winemakers on this forum but it is interesting to know what tools are out there...

In case anyone wondered how wineries receive and transport moderate volumes of bulk wine or juice, this is one way it is done. This is a refrigerated truck with five 550-gallon tanks installed in it that comes with a hydraulic pump and a long line of 2-in hoses. The truck also can hold a dozen...

Sorry for the short notice. I jsut got a notice that Bucher Vaslin is putting on a webinar that may be of interest to those in this group 6/16 8:30-9:30 pacific Register here https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HOSQcp_DR-q4mUWxy5krcQ TODAY - High pH grapes and wines: challenges and...

I bought a 3-door merchandiser fridge to keep wine cold for customer consumption onsite. The shelves are each about 2ft by 2ft and can fit 4 cases of wine. However, the weight is a bit much for the stock wire shelves and there is some noticeable bowing on a couple wire shelves already. So, I...

So I know I have the vermin in the vineyard. One area of my chambourcin is much more severely impacted by crown gall than another. At first I'd attributed that to soil and vigor differences but I'm now thinking that rabbits are playing a starring role. Not that it takes much for Chambourcin to...

I realize there are different schools of thought on this, so I wanted to try a poll to see what the most common practice is currently employed these days. An article earlier this year in Wine business monthly tangentially touched on dry red wine processing and it was nearly uniform that the...

I'm wondering if someone out there with an experienced eye can help identify what the disease is causing the lesions on these vine shoots. This is a "Sheridan" grapevine (labrusca) that seems to be sensitive to a wide variety of diseases throughout the season. The photo is from early Sept...

So this is somewhat of a technical and nitpicking question on the AO procedure. The way it was taught to me, and the way I've been doing it, was to bubble air through the acidified wine solution. However, some of the sulfites in the wine that I'm trying to measure likely end up binding with the...

I have to share that I'd never heard of SP until last year. I made small commercial trial batch to test the waters for customer appeal and it sold out within weeks. I doubled the batch for the next round and dealt with issues I had with first batch. After a month it too is almost sold out and I...

Anyone know of a decent manual bag in box bottling option for small scale limited use? I'm looking to put a small portion of my wine into bags to make it easier to take to off-site events.

I put in a couple hundred DeChaunac vines a couple years ago. Of the 13 varietals growing in my vineyard, this is one of the more peculiar. In the spring it buds out fine and seems to produce an large quantity of flower clusters. Sometime around bloom the plant is beset by some sort of die-off...

Quick background: I like to fully comprehend the impact of every addition we use in making wine, so I'll periodically run small experiments. In this case I looked at the impact of making strawberry wine with and without pectic enzyme, among a handful of other trials. In this experiment, EC1118...