2023 Vidal
October 2023 This morning I drove to a friend’s vineyard in Glade Springs VA, a 4 hour drive. She and her husband picked Chambourcin and Vidal yesterday, and we crushed 120+ pounds each of...
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Determining Initial Brix / Specific Gravity
A common question on WineMakingTalk is “What should the initial brix / specific gravity (SG) of a wine be?” The short, but totally unhelpful answer is, “Whatever you want it to be?” This is...