Don’t miss your opportunity to wine with fruit located very close to Chateau Montelena!

Do You love Right Bank Bordeaux? Do you love Red mountain? We’ve got you covered with Merlot and Cabernet Franc coming from Washington’s most esteemed AVA.

Frozen wine grape must and juice futures available for purchase below. These will be shipped at your convenience after they are harvested and frozen this Fall.

We’re excited to announce our first Syrah since Durell. 2017 futures sales coming soon!

So you’ve pressed off your delicious red wine and now have a big pile of grape skins. Instead of throwing them away, take a look at these four ideas and start making full use your grape skins!

Home winemaking can be as easy or difficult as you want it to be. To see just how easy learning to make wine can be, check out our incredibly simple PDF guides that show you how to make both red and white wine in 12 easy to follow steps.

Come to WineGrapesDirect.com to see the Wine Must comic, and don’t forget to check out the excellent frozen wine grape must and juice we have available for sale.

How to wine winemaking competitions:

1. Make Big Wines

2. Extract as Much as Possible

3. Buy the Best Wine Grapes and Juice Available Online at WineGrapesDirect.com

4. Make Lots of Wine and Blend Up

5. Enter them All

6. Taste Award Winning Wine

We started making wine with our Oregon and Washington fruit last week. It took about 3 days to dethaw the pails in a heated shed. After the fruit was fully dethawed and thoroughly mixed we took measurements of the brix, pH and TA.  

All the wine grapes are picked and available to start shipping on Monday, October 31st.  There was a mix-up with the lab so we didn’t get any officials samples done on the Mourvedre and Tempranillo.

So you want Napa quality but you want to pay Lodi prices? The Suisun Valley has you covered. Though often overshadowed by their famous neighboring county to the North, the reputation of the Suisun Valley is changing quickly.  

Rattlensake Hills Tempranillo futures are now available. Tempranilllo is the most famous of all Spanish grapes and is the signature varietal of both the Rioja and Ribera del Dureo growing regions.  

Check out the video below of our Cabernet Sauvignon and Mourvedre vines located in the Rattle Snake Hills AVA of the Columbia Valley in Washington State.

We all know it takes a lot of beer to make good wine. But historically the reverse also holds true. 2700 year old  residues found in the chalices of the tomb of King Midas contain detectable amounts of honey, barley and grape juice.

The Rattlesnake Hills AVA contains the ideal growing environment for thick skinned, late ripening reds like Cabernet Sauvignon and Mourvedre.

Why is frozen grape must the best? Extraction, Frozen is Fresher, Equipment, and Timing.

We’ll be pouring as much Wine Grapes Direct juice as we can. We’ll also break open a couple very nice bottles of  commercial wine to blind taste against the best of what we do.

The winners were  just announced from the 2016 Cal State Fair and we’re pleased with the results. We entered 10 wines and got 9 awards. The one that didn’t win was an experimental Zinfandel that we crushed with our feet and fermented on the stems with indigenous yeast.