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Harvested 175 lbs of Pinot Noir a few miles up the road yesterday. Hand destemmed (long, long day), and put to cold soak. Then harvested my tiny "estate" vineyard this morning, destemmed, and put it to soak as well. I was going to let my grapes hand for a few days more, but we had some rain on...

I'm now trying to figure out how to get "meaningful" results when sampling for whites and rosé vs. red wines. Mashing by hand then soaking up for 5 hours seems reasonable for reds, but obviously isn't going to give a good representation of what you'll get when making white or rosé. But mashing...

Hi, I just discovered this forum today while searching for some info on making rosé. I was a winemaking intern in 2018 and 2019 at a small winery in Sonoma County (mostly Pinot Noir, a bit of Chard), and started making wine at home in 2020. I have a tiny vineyard - 8 PN vines - and make very...