Search results

I thought I would post up at least a start of 2023 and see where it goes. Yesterday, my wife and I picked 350 pounds of Syrah and 100 pounds of Grenache near Auburn California which is about 40 minutes north of where we live. I did not get any picking pictures because we started in the dark...

I will be travelling to Alaska through BC. Does anyone know how much wine I can take? I was thinking of taking a case of home made wine to be consumed by our group up in Alaska. It looks like Canadians can only bring 1.5L across the border, but I'm transiting through. Does that change the...

With apologies to Charles Dickens, I am still messing around with H2S preventing yeasts from Renaissance and thought I would report the progress and when I get to the end of fermentation, the results. This past week, we drove from Sacramento, to Yakima Washington with the idea that we would do...

A bit late. I got home from Alaska on 9/11 at midnight and the next day was picking Syrah and Sangiovese. THat's been working a week and as of today the Syrah and Sangiovese are in Carboys-All my carboys are in use. So 23ish gallons of each are waiting to settle and will siphon off the good...

Today was Mourvedre day and wouldn't you know it, there was an extra 100 pounds give or take that needed a home. So I got my usual 300 and an extra hundred for Rose. So the grapes were very nice brix 25 off a hillside vineyard in Contra Costa County near Brentwood. My plan is to let the...

For 2019, I bought a 500 gram brick of Avante yeast. Between my use and the use by my friends, I've still got 200 grams of it. That's plenty for all the wine I might make in 2020. Does anyone know if it can be kept over the winter in the Fridge and still work next year? I have a vacuum...

I have no pictures to share, but 2019 got underway today with some California foothills Syrah, picked today about 7 am. Anyway, we arrived at a friend's vineyard this am at about 0630. He has 2.5 acres of vines a mix of Grenache, Syrah and Sangiovese. I was there for the Syrah. I had help...

I am reluctant to start a thread where I don't have any of the answers, but there was discussion on another thread that lead to this one. So this is a chance to ask questions and hopefully forum members with experience can chime in. I used CO2 extensively when brewing to move and dispense beer...

Disclosure: 3 years experience, and 2016 really doesn't count since "mistakes were made" ! Lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made In 2017 I made 2 wines, a Primitivo, and a Cabernet. Both of these were made from grapes from Clarksburg, which is basically near Lodi but closer...

I don't know if I'll have time to document this thread in it's entirety, but I'll take a stab at it. It's harvest season here in Northern California and today was the day when time, grapes and friends all fell into place for an interesting harvest. We were picking Syrah this morning at 7am in...