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Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe,
10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee, NY 14837
Free catalog, mail order of supplies but not grapes and juices.
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ANYONE CAN MAKE WINE |
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MAKE YOUR OWN WINES |
March 2008
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NEW SHOP HOURS:
Tuesday to Friday, 10-5 EST and Saturday, 10-4 EST
The shop will be
closed for walk in customers Tues to Thurs, April 15-16-17 for Luci's
vacation.
However, on-line
orders will be sent. Sorry for any inconvenience! Luci is going fishing.
Marcy will have the
shop open Friday and Saturday of that week. Stop by!
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Dear Winemaker
Our view overlooking Keuka
Lake in the Finger Lakes Wine Region of central NY.
SPRING IS HERE!!
We thought it was, but had a
surprise ice storm (a couple of them) and then snow with gloomy, gray
skies and even though geese were flying overhead, it was not encouraging.
The next snow had a sunny blue sky! Just the picture I wanted for our
winter scene on our new website at www.101winemaking.com
This site has the answers to some of your questions if it is late at night
and we aren't answering the phone to help you out with winemaking issues.
This is a great collection of FREE (online) information on winemaking
procedures, problems, instruction for filters and additives, and more!
Check it out.
It is also available as a CD
for mac or pc with a frames format and printable pages. |
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Last cold spell for
winemakers!
SO NOW THAT IT IS SPRING.....Take
advantage of our last (hopefully) cold spell to cold stabilize if you
haven't done so already. If you have a negative reading on your hydrometer
of minus 1.5 to minus 2 or so you probably have a dry wine. Tom says it
depends on your initial brix, so it is more complicated than meets the
eye. If you have a negative reading and want to test for residual sugar,
use our clinitest kit for a more accurate measurement. Then you can use
sorbate, if it is indicated. If you add sorbate (and meta), it is ideal to
cold stabilize, so check this issue out before you cold stabilize, then
you will be truly ready to bottle.
If you used any acid reducing
agents other than calcium carbonate, you must cold stabilize to finalize
the acid reduction task of the agents used. One of our winemakers gently
told us that the tartrate crystals that settle out from cold stabilizing
can go back into solution and so, we should cold rack. It seemed that Tom
was always carrying in our wine at 10:00 at night so the jug wouldn't
break in the colder night time temps. We convinced ourselves that we could
wait on the racking. Now we have better places to cold stabilize with
better control. I stand corrected. Cold rack unless you are willing to
compromise a bit.
Contact Us
Free on-line advice for the
home winemaker
www.fallbright.com
www.101winemaking.com
10110 Hyatt Hill
Dundee, New York 14837
607-292-3995! |
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May your wines
fall bright!
Marcy Mitchell
Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe
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