Winemaking Talk - Winemaking, Grape Growing & Vineyard Forum

My name is Chris. My wife and I just started making our own wine from wine kits. I'd like to try various types over time, moving from kits to juices and perhaps fruit that doesn't need a crusher. We are getting started rather late in life, as I always assumed making wine would be a lot more complicated than it is. I appreciate this site and what I have already learned from folks...

This year I applied lime sulfur to all my vines hoping to reduce phomopsis right away. Last year I had about a quarter of my vineyard infected even tho I used mancozeb and captan early. I stopped spraying captan on may 19, didn’t apply it again until June 15. That gap must be when phomopsis got a foothold on the vines. We had thirteen inches of rain in that time period. After sp...

The Austin Rodeo /TXWIC Allows Amateur winemakers to compete along with all the commercial entrants. So I figured why not give it a shot.
I entered my Lenoir in single varietal Black Spanish / Lenoir.
My entry was still pretty young and had a touch of residual sugar. I guess the judges didn't hate it and gave me a bronze.
First entry in a competition so a big deal fo...

Each spring for the last few years I have posted a poll regarding production volume, which will be open for 120 days. I'm a bit late this year, as I normally post in April or May, but this is close enough.

This is not a rigorous post. Vote with what you made in 2025, or what you plan for 2026. The point of the poll is more to spur conversation than anything.

eDJ said: @winemaker81