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Thank you for your replies. Here are the details of our Zinfandel (didn't know I should have put these on my original post) We picked 200 lbs on 10/12/18 Labs were 27.3 brix 3.32 pH and .70 TA Pressed 10/22 – ended up with 13 gallons Did our first racking probably too late – didn’t know it...

We have 70 Syrah grapevines planted in our backyard and got our first harvest this year. Only 46 of the 70 vines had grapes which I'm not too worried about since it's only the third leaf. My concern is that the juice tasted really good on crush day but yesterday when we pressed it tasted sort of...

Hi all. I bottled my first batch of Zinfandel yesterday and it didn't taste good. I'm not talking about spoilage, just lousy tasting wine. Should I have dumped it or is there hope?

Wow! Small world. We have met (I just looked you up in the membership directory). I recently joined the board of directors as webmaster (replacing Ed) so you may know who I am. Regarding pesticides, that's what the grower rep thought it was when she looked at the pictures. The only thing we...

Well, we had our mentor from our home wine/beer making club over and he was stumped. He says it's not flowers. We contacted the grower (Duarte) and they have offered to send the field rep out for a look. I will post when I find out more.

Thanks for your replies. I will try to take better pictures and upload them. We live in Paso Robles near downtown so our AVA would be Paso Robles (not one on the sub-AVAs). Karen

We are in our second year with our little vineyard (80 Syrah vines) on the central coast of California. This year we pruned to establish the main trunk for future growth. Now on some of my vines I've got these rather large clusters of what looks like hundreds of tiny leaves. Please see the...

Plus you can try different things ( like yeast, oak, etc ) and compare That's an added benefit I hadn't considered. Thanks so much!

We're in the process of making our first batch of wine. We bought a wine making equipment set that came with a 6.5 gal big mouth bubbler and a 6 gal glass carboy. After trying to move the glass carboy filled with wine it became apparent that it's risky for me to do given my strength. My...