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Last year my vines started to get hit by a very colorful worm that skinned the leaves until they were thinner than paper. Any organic, or not, pesticides you’d suggest?

How’d You figure out it was old sulfites? What is too old? Can you test for old sulfites?

That is sad, super sorry that you lost all that. Truly hope that the blackberry wine is a success. I have a great old buddy from Missouri, wave hi to Cecil sometime for me.

Is that typical for a vine? Seems like that is what happened to me.

I’d like to plant them all. This little hobby I’ve started is growing like a you know what. Made a possible fatal wine making error yesterday so I’m reading a bunch to see if can I can or need to fix anything. In the process of my research I’ll read about Spanish varieties. Thank you

Thanks I think I will give a kit a try next. That and the Welch’s wine seems like good old high school fun! I did get both, the hydrometer and thermometer. When I took my hydrometer reading after initial racking, it rea.1.00. My reading of the must when I put in primary was .80. I was going to...

Thank you and I will use them and I need to start documenting more efficiently for sure.

I like it! I use a similar calculation to remember when to fertilize, this’ll be a nice addition to the math side of things. I’m growing a vitis vinifera but unsure of variety. Thought I was buying a seedless variety but as it tuns out this is not seedless.

Very nice. That’s almost how it happened to me - Saturday the primary appeared to have stopped fermenting. So on Sunday I wrung it all out through a fine net, then I siphoned juice in glass carboy with air lock. I’m seeing no action?! This evening there was a lot of sediment so I “racked” (a...

Thanks all of you! Awesome info. Hope you don’t mind but I wrote it all down on my newly purchased spiral notebook that is freshly stained with what I’m calling the “Must”. It’s the juice that is coming out of the hole in the top of my primary. I’ve figured that it may be a little full. It’s...

Sorry, lap top died. Love your suggestions on varieties and thank you so much for the root stock id.

Thank you, The best wines!? Now the pressure is on. My soil has a lot of clay in it,

I am easing into this somewhat. In a nutshell, 5 or 6 years ago I built @ pergola and planted a grape vine at each post. Last year about this time we produced about 10 lbs. of good grapes that we made jelly out of. Around this same time I had a little heart episode and am now the proud owner of...

Will do. Thank you. The other batch is in the freezer now. It is much cleaner, I pulled all large twigs and leaves out. Small stems on grapes still there though. Reading? You got that brother!

Thanks for the info! I’ll get the fermaid k and the hydro Thanks for the info! I’ll get the fermaid k, the campden tablets and hydrometer tomorrow. One question now and I’m sure many, many more to come, when do I transfer to glass carboy? I’ve read to do this after primary stops fermenting...

As I read these posts, I am impressed by the knowledge and vocabulary used throughout. I say this as an ignorant, very new enthusiast to the world of wine and wine making. To the point - I am in Phoenix, AZ., growing Vitis Vinifera, it has seeds and is very sweet to the untrained pallet. In your...

This is exactly why I started drinking wine about a year ago!! I had a similar situation, I needed an unexpected stint. My wife has taken me on this heart healthy trip and wine was one of her prescriptions. I’ve been drinking 1-3 glasses of Tannat from South Africa or Cabs from Washington...

I’m a first time wine maker that is super confused! There is so much info out there that I’ve decided to go with what I think are the basics. At this point I just want to make a palatable red wine. Here is what I’ve done so far. Please comment on what I’ve done at this point and hopefully some...