We have torn apart our bottling system and replaced washers and O’rings in several places. We will celebrate the completion of that task with a bottling of Red, White, & Blue this week. Our team have their fingers crossed that everything works right. We will also be getting
Read more →In the cellar, we have two batches of Red, White, & Blue that are being racked (moved from one tank to another, leaving behind solids at the bottom of the tank) and filtered. We are receiving a truck load of bottles which we put in our warehouse.
Read more →Weather permitting, we are installing pencil rods (steel rods about ¼ inch in diameter) in several rows of Marquette that we’ve cut off at the ground. We will train the suckers that come up when the ground warms up in the spring up along the pencil rods
Read more →Several batches of the very popular Red, White, & Blue have finished fermenting. We will rack the wine off yeast lees. This means that the wine will be pumped from one tank to another while leaving behind the sludge (dead yeast cells). We’ll then clean out the
Read more →We will be bottling a batch of our very popular American Steuben this week. Another bottling run of Oskyfizzante® Cranberry will follow late in the week. These runs will empty tanks we will need as we start to process fruit to be harvested this year. Our cellar
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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