We continue to monitor several fermentations and when they finish, we rack the wine into a new, clean tank, leaving the sediment behind. We will clean the old tank out and run chemical analyses on the wine and give it a taste. This will help determine what
Read more →The first job right after harvest finished was to get the harvest equipment back to the warehouse. The red wines that are fermenting in open-top fermenters need to be punched down in the morning and again in the evening until fermentation finishes. We want to extract all
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We are bottling our first batch of the very popular Oskyfizzante® Cranberry this week. We have also just finished cold stabilizing a batch of American Steuben and will rack that wine off cream of tartar. We will get it bottled in the next week or so. Preventative
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We will bottle one of our last batches of Red, White, & Blue® for the season and work on getting Cranberry ready to bottle. With the start of harvesting approaching in August, this is the time of year that we start planning the purchasing of yeast, yeast
Read more →We have several fermentations going on with the juice that we brought in from upstate New York. Over the weekend, we added the lab nutrients to two of these fermentations. We will bottle another batch of Red, White, & Blue® on Wednesday and then get Cranberry Wine
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