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This will be our 2nd year at making wine and we're a couple weeks away from harvest. We're trying to time a harvest party to coincide with the correct brix but I can see that's a moving target. We're shooting for a brix of 24 and we were wondering what's the down side if our timing is off and we...

I live in the Sacramento area and have recently had an infestation of flying, tiny, white bugs on my vines. They don't appear to be hurting anything as of yet but I'm concerned they may be laying eggs in the fruit. Any idea what they are and what's the best insecticide to get rid of them.

We are on our 2nd year on making a Tempranillo from our own little vineyard. We pressed a little less than 50 gallons about 5 months ago and are using a stainless steel fermenting barrel. We racked the wine about 3 months ago and all was good but in racking again today, I noticed a slight...

We harvested and crushed about 1,000 lbs of tempranillo grapes last Sunday. The hydrometer says I'm just a little above the 1.000 mark so it's my understanding it's time to press but my schedule won't allow me to get to it for another week. Is this going to effect the wine adversely? I'm also...