MLF Test Tip for Winemaking

Live fermentation of what was frozen red grape must

Working with white Rhone varietals, you can produce a white wine with a cacophony of ripe aromas and flavors.

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

Be sure to order an ingredient kit with your pail of frozen grape must or juice.

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.

Buying high quality frozen wine grapes online is easy and secure with Wine Grapes Direct! First, decide what kind of wine you want to make, Second, decide when you’re going to make it, and Third, order your wine grapes or juice.

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.  

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.

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.