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This is the time growers are busy planning new plantings and/ or completing pruning and top working activities. This article will focus on testing and management strategies in the vineyard that can help control the establishment and spread of diseases. As always our customer service goal is focused on educating our clients to understand plant health issues as they relate to their vineyards.

Crush Pad Ideas Before Building Your Winery

The crush pad design of a winery is one of the most critical areas of the winery. Much of the hard work in making wine happens on the crush pad especially during harvest. Make sure to design and implement all aspects of the desired needs into the crush pad of your functional winemaking facility. Below are some broad and expandable review points that apply to most, if not all, crush pads.

Want to know how to make your own wine in the comfort of your own home? Since the Roman era, lots of people have been doing it, but without the right equipment, it's not an easy thing to do. Here are a few tips of what winemaking accessories and equipment you should look at investing in to make some great homemade wine for a surprisingly low cost!

Hypac released its 3rd Generation Basket Press prior to the 2008 harvest and according to two clients who have used the press during vintage, Grand Burge Wines and Two Hands Wines, it has proven an excellent purchase choice.

Re-coopering barrels might once have been a “green” thing, but in this economy it also makes dollars and cents. Barrel broker John Gill, at barrelbroker.com – which also recycles racks and bungs - points to a stable but growing market for the sanitizing, deep cleaning, and re-cooperage of wine barrels. “A new French oak wine barrel is $900-1200 delivered,” said Gill. “A used barrel can range in price from $55-300. An ‘06 French oak red might be $55-65, but a once-used 2010 French oak barrel could sell from anywhere from $300-350.”

Do you Know What it Takes to Start Planting Your Very Own Grapes? Planting and growing your grapes is the first milestone to complete in the process of making wine. In order to plan a recipe for success, take a look at the following aspects of growing that you will need to account for during the planting of your grapevines.