Fall Bright has been providing winemaking supplies, grapes, juices (plus brewing supplies) for amateur winemakers since 1978. An old grape packing house provides a home for Fall Bright. Call us at 607-292-3995.
Fall Bright the
Winemakers Shoppe
10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee, NY 607-292-3995
NEAR
WAYNE, NY Keuka Lake East-side
NOT near Dundee, sorry
to have a tricky mailing address!
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Stanley
A. “Bill” Wagner, age 83, died at his home in Lodi
on Saturday, June 26, 2010 Our thoughts and prayers are with his
family.
WE
ARE STILL HERE!! Tom wants to retire from grape
growing, and yes, the Hyatt Hill farm is for sale, 
however, he
is in the vineyard, still growing grapes for
your wine making needs. We still have a full line of supplies for the
amateur wine maker and brewer right here in our Hyatt
Hill shop, with online shopping using the links on the right!
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Tom wants to retire from grape growing. The Hyatt Hill farm is half of our grape acreage with the shop in the middle of it and we have Jim and Mark Moon for this task. http://www.teammoonrealestate.com/ ( I know they need this new picture above!)
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We are still growing grapes and are still selling winemaking and brewing supplies for the amateurs.
Online shopping shipping is $5.99! There are some items we do not ship like wine bottles, grapes, juices, 50 pound bags of corn sugar.
New bottles case of
12: 750 ml Flint (clear) Bordeaux $10.29
New Bottles case of 12: 750 ml Champagne Green Bordeaux $10.29
Stuck Fermentation - a Sticky Situation a pdf
A note from the Cornell Enology Group with the following footnote from another email. This is where I got the Glucose is the same as dextrose. Thomas Henick-Kling is no longer at Cornell, but his information is and will continue to be appreciated.
If there
is much less glucose then Saccharomyces yeasts can not restart the
fermentation. Apparently Saccharomyces need some glucose (same as
dextrose) to be able to transport the fructose into the cell and
ferment it. In these cases where the glucose concentration is less than half of
that of fructose, the only way to restart the fermentation is to add
more glucose (same as dextrose). None of the repair
yeast (all offered so far are Saccharomyces) can restart a fermentation
without an adequate glucose-fructose ratio.
Please call or e-mail us if you have any questions:
Ben Gavitt (bkg1@cornell.edu) and Dragana Dimitrijevic (dd233@cornell.edu
Phone: 315-787-2263
Thomas Henick-Kling
STRAWBERRIES ARE READY. If you are making wine from fruits and vegetables, you will need to apply basic winemaking and several additives. Follow the guidelines in your recipes, but do test your beginning fruit and water mix for brix and adjust as needed rather than as suggested by a recipe. http://www.101winemaking.com/fruit_wines.htm
Online orders will still be filled and shipped 24-48 hours.
Call 607-292-3995 and leave a message with a number that I may call you in the evening, if you call on a day we are closed.
- We do appreciate and need your business.
- We are still growing grapes for your winemaking needs and have a nice crop this year...
- We did not have any frost damage in May nor hail in June, July, August. (yet)
- Tom is well and feeling better than he has for the last several years.
- Our shop staff (Luci and Nicole) have spent more time in the vineyard this year (2009) than in the shop.
Screw top (28 mm) green 1/5 port bottles for sale at $5.00 a case of 12. New Old Vintage Taylor Port bottles... Will not ship. We also have some rinsed used with labels in the shop. Will not ship.
COMPETITIONS:
Note that the NY State Fair Amateur Wine Contest is not associated with the
winemaking seminar anymore. The seminar is NOT a drop off spot nor is Fall
Bright.
http://www.better-bottle.com
A shortcut to the word on better bottles verses glass.
These are NOT PC plastic bottles, which are the blue ones used for the 5
gallon water industry. They are PET, lab plastic. The 5 gallon PET
weighs in at 1.53 pounds, empty without the box! Go to the
technical tab and then cleaning....
Complete instructions for care & sanitation of your PET Better Bottle, go to their site. www.better-bottle.com For a short cut on this site go to
This PET product is a high end lab item. It does not breath (allow oxygen in) or leach (plastic materials) into the wine. It is resistant to chlorine-based (C-Brite) and other (percabonate: B-Brite, One Step, OxiClean) cleaners and dish cleaning (Cascade) items and Potassium Metabisulfite rinses.
To avoid scratching the inside while cleaning, which creates microscopic hiding places for bacteria, yeast, etc, the use of carboy BRUSHES is NOT recommended. If you really need a brush, put a tube sock over your carboy brush.
There is no need to risk burning yourself with use of over-hot water, though it will stand temperature up to 140 0 F. Your skin will not.
Rinsing by flushing is very effective: garden hose nozzle, Double Blast Bottle Rinser, etc..
www.fallbright.com Dundee,
NY 607-292-3995
Our newsletter introducing the BetterBottle..
NEW GOOGLE search bar on our site on the left side menu. This will only search this site and when you select a page, you will come back here with the chosen page. We have so much content on our site that you will have many choices and a few advertised sites that tag along as part of the google search.
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pH meters: our new testing item has been a great addition. We worked with a customer over the summer with wine problems that turned out to be a high pH. There is a great risk of shifting the pH of the wine with the use of acid reduction agents for high acid wines. This meter is very affordable at $79.99.
| pH Meter: Milwaukee 51 Automatic Temperature Compensation 0-50 deg C. Highly accurate manual 2-point calibration. Replaceable electrode MA73600. 1500 hr continuous use battery life. Auto-shutoff after 10 minutes. Waterproof to 6 ft underwater. Batteries: 3 x 1.5 V. Two year warranty. Padded Case. With the meter facing you, the adjustment screw (under the battery cap on top) for the buffer 7 solution is on the left and the buffer 4 is on the right. |
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| Milwaukee 51
First time use will need both buffer solutions which are included with meter! |
79.99 |
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We have added just a few wine concentrate kits
to the ONLINE store only. See kits or concentrates in the menu to the
right. We do not have them on premise at Fall Bright due to space
restraints. They are also heavy for us (girls) to handle to box up
to ship, so they will be shipped directly from our suppliers.
Vintners
Reserve Spagnols
NEW ITEMS
The Winemaker's Answer Book
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14.95 |  |
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| May Your Wine Fall Bright A Winemaker's
Reference by Tom and Marcy Mitchell
CD PC or MAC A Winemaker's Reference PC MAC |
19.99 now 9.99 |
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We HAD a red mystery blend for $8.00 per gallon, see Greg's story. It is sort of an explanation of what happened..... Buyers of this mystery blend, let us know what you think it is! NO ONE GUESSED CLOSE. This item is gone, gone, never again, a pumping accident of equal parts of Concord and Chardonnay-Merlot blend, Eye of the Partridge. I cried for 2 days (2006). Tom added some Colobel for color. He made a jug, but it has been like an orphan in the corner and has not had a lot of love or attention. The doors were left open (another accident) and the jug broke. End of that story. We never did have a hoop-a event to unveil the Masquerade!
We are open year 'round!
NY 73.0136.17 has a new name "Noiret" pronounced 'nwahr-ay'.
Thank you for
your business this year and every year!
The ANYONE CAN MAKE WINE graphics on the front page is being used with permission from Domenic Carisetti. He is working full-time as a winemaking consultant.
NEW SHOPPING CART
shop online at our new cart right here
or call 607-292-3995 to place an order.
2010
CATALOG PDF
online orders will be filled and shipped 24-48 hours
regardless of our hours.
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IN STORE ITEMS
American Wine Society
Brushes bottle
De-Gasser Plastic Gift
Certificate
Kitchen Scales
Paddle |
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