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We have half of our 2019 Petite Syrah in a 60 gallon barrel and the other half in 5 gallon car boys. We keep seeing a white film develop on the top of the wine in the glass car boys. Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it? Thanks

Hi everyone Well this year we purchased 36 boxes of Petite Syrah here in Florida. We picked the grapes up on Saturday 09/28 and crushed the same day. So we have 18 boxes in the large fermenter and the other boxes dispersed into three 32 gallon covered containers. I used D254 yeast which I...

We have been making red wine from California grapes for over 20 years and have never done an ML fermentation. We don''t add So2 either but just started adding wine yeast this year. What are your opinions on MLF?

I accidentally added too much yeast to the crushed grapes today. I was supposed to add 56 grams and added 64 instead. Is this going to be a problem?

Hi, We live in Florida and have been making wine for about 25 years now. We have a self contained and temperature controlled wine cellar with our equipment and make about 100 gallons total of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Syrah each year. Up until now we have never added any sulphites, yeast or...