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2025 Chardonnel

updated 09/14/2025 September 2025 Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard, crushed 120 lbs Chardonnel, 210 lbs Baco Noir, 25 lbs Marechal Foch, and 25 lbs Leon Millot. This...

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2025 Baco Noir

updated 09/14/2025 September 2025 Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard, crushed 120 lbs Chardonnel, 210 lbs Baco Noir, 25 lbs Marechal Foch, and 25 lbs Leon Millot. This...

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2023 Port

December 2024 Overall, the 2021 Port was a successful effort, so we decided to try it again. This time we used the 2023 Sangiovese, which is 2 juice buckets fermented with the pomace of...

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2024 Vidal

updated 07/02/2025 October 2024 Today I met the owners of Glade Spring Vineyard to get the Vidal, which is already crushed. This is the last wine of the year. The Vidal label went through...

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2024 Pinot Noir

October 2024 We decided to continue the idea of adding juice buckets to the pomace of other grapes. This year the grapes are Chambourcin and Chelois, French-American hybrids. The juice buckets are Pinot Noir....

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2024 Chelois

updated 07/16/2025 October 2024 Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard, crushed 125 lbs Chardonnel, 300 lbs Chambourcin, and 300 lbs Chelois. This one takes some figuring, as it’s...

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2024 Chambourcin

updated 07/16/2025 October 2024 Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard, crushed 125 lbs Chardonnel, 300 lbs Chambourcin, and 300 lbs Chelois. Ingredients Fruit 300 lbs Chambourcin, divided into...

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2024 Chardonnel

updated 07/21/2025 October 2024 Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard. Working with the vineyard owners, we crushed 125 lbs Chardonnel, 300 lbs Chambourcin, and 300 lbs Chelois. Then...

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2023 Zinfandel

December 2023 I’m making a new Zinfandel kit, one unlike I’ve seen (or tried) before. This kit is actually two 3 US gallon kits that are being made together, to produce one 6 US...

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2023 Sangiovese

October 2023 Fall 2022 I got the brilliant idea of adding the pomace from my grape wines to a couple of kits. So I purchased two Finer Wine Kits Tavola Merlot kits and reconstituted...