Grape Harvesting

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Birretta

Grape Harvesting

Post by Birretta » Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:56 am

Hey Guys,
Never really post much on here, am more of a lurker,
As quite an avid gardener, i thought i would share with you guys my Vines, which i hope very soon to turn into vintage Wine. They've been growing for around the past 13/14 years and were grown from cuttings taken abroad from Italy, where my family has made grapes for many years. They have'nt done too badly this year considering the weather, but baring in mind i'm based in sunny Kent. Anyhow here go's -

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mmm, tasty

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A section of the Vine

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The White-grapes ... nibbled furiously at by birds, could'nt shoot them fast enough :twisted:

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and more grapes,

I am torn at the moment as whether to go with natural fermentation, whilst risking contamination. I like things to be done in a more traditional way if possible.
Does anyone have any online recipes for use of real grape's rather then extract. Even though we've had the grapes for a while it's the first time i am actually producing wine from them, more updates to follow ofcourse :lol:
P.S sorry if the photo's are way too big, not too sure on how to resize them

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Post by awalker » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:11 am

grape wine could not be easier

press your grapes and get us much juice as possible

measure SG of must

add sugar as necessary to bring up SG to required percentage of alcohol
you want

add yeast

If you want red wine soak red skins in must for up to four days to extract the colour(or you might be lucky and be able get red must straight from your grapes)

Hope that helps

c.j. berrys book on wine making comes in useful if you want to know more
Fermenter(s): Lambic, Wheat beer, Amrillo/Cascade Beer
Cornys: Hobgoblin clone, Four Shades Stout, Wheat Beer, Amarillo/Cascade Ale, Apple Wine, Cider, Damson Wine, Ginger Beer

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Post by awalker » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:38 am

Indeed
Not sure if mine is worth 50p yet :lol:
Fermenter(s): Lambic, Wheat beer, Amrillo/Cascade Beer
Cornys: Hobgoblin clone, Four Shades Stout, Wheat Beer, Amarillo/Cascade Ale, Apple Wine, Cider, Damson Wine, Ginger Beer

lockwood1956

Post by lockwood1956 » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:14 am

Ths is the UCDavis california red wine making guide
you cant go wrong following it.

I make wine from Fresh grapes, I however dont go the traditional route, and am an interventionist (for interventionist read GEEK)

http://wineserver.ucdavis.edu/pdf/HWM3.pdf

hope this helps
regards
Bob

lockwood1956

Post by lockwood1956 » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:16 am

You can follow our grape wine making adventure here (you need to get into page 3 or so before the action really starts)

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/show ... php?t=1287

We Import grapes from Italy each year....(makes yummy wine)

regards
Bob

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