Reinventwen
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Home wine makers out there?
I googled wine-making in Mexico and found nothing. Does anyone know where one can get the juice, or a kit, to make wine? Will I have to go to San
Diego? And if so, is there any law against bringing the juice back to Baja?
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kits are avail by mail order if you can't find one locally.
there is a good one on west side of phx and when i worked in SD there was a good one there too.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Reinventwen
I googled wine-making in Mexico and found nothing. Does anyone know where one can get the juice, or a kit, to make wine? Will I have to go to San
Diego? And if so, is there any law against bringing the juice back to Baja? |
Where in Baja are you located???
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Can't answer yer question... but I do have 65 gallons of chardonnay fermenting as we speak! Good luck! Maybe you could find some grapes in Guadalupe
Valle?
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You'll have the same restrictions reentering the states as you would with store bought wine.
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Reinventwen
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thanks to all who replied
Baja guy and Dennis:
We are still in Canada. Will be in Baja mid to late January in Rosarito area. So if we have to buy the juice in San Diego to bring down to Rosarito
will we have restrictions enterig Mexico (not US)?
Capt Mike:
Where is (what is) west side of phx?
Martyman:
How did you get your chardonnay started?
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Reinventwen
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kits are avail by mail order if you can't find one locally.
Capt Mike:
I'm happy to do it by mailorder but I've heard the mail is "problematic".
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Reinventwen
We are still in Canada. Will be in Baja mid to late January in Rosarito area. So if we have to buy the juice in San Diego to bring down to Rosarito
will we have restrictions enterig Mexico (not US)?
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I guess that would depend on the volume. How much do you plan on bringing?
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I think juice is ok, just like food......but wine is another thing altogether
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
I think juice is ok, just like food......but wine is another thing altogether |
Sure. Enough for what would be considered personal use. Fifty gallons may raise a red flag.
If I were going to go to the trouble to make wine, I'd make a bunch of it.
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Maybe he needs to contact Jay D or Charlie G in Punta Banda????
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
Maybe he needs to contact Jay D or Charlie G in Punta Banda???? |
Funny....really funny...you should mention that. I saw a couple of bottles of their product the other day and on the label..the label on the
bottle...is a picture of Jay and his wife at a dinner table.
Don't ever accuse him of modesty. 
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The Former Winemaker at Monte Xanic
In the Guadalupe Valley opened his own place down the road from his former employer. When we visited him a couple of years ago, he told us that he
was getting his grapes trucked in to his winery from Mexicali.
Don't have a clue where you can get the necessary hardware, though.
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Thanks Jan, I'll see what I can find out. In the meantime, what about the couple with their own label in Punta Banda? They must be making their own
wine. I wonder how.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Reinventwen
Thanks Jan, I'll see what I can find out. In the meantime, what about the couple with their own label in Punta Banda? They must be making their own
wine. I wonder how. |
There are small, private labels in the Guadalupe Valley and obviously they don't all make their own. They belong to Co-ops and are probably growing
their own grapes, but send them off to be processed with their labels.
The two aforementioned gentlemen are for sure doing that and more/less. Perhaps they have leased a plot of vinyard, but they don't have one of their
own. Both of them live in Punta Banda and are accessable although I don't know how forthcoming they will be with info. There's a bit of snobbery that
comes with their territory.....corks in the bottles and that kind of stuff, ya know.
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I live in Sonoma County in California so lots of home and commercial winemakers. I used M2 (or is it M4?) yeast for this batch. Will be bottling my
'09 primativo soon (80 gallons).
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I've never made wine from "scratch".
We buy the juice and mix it with yeast and leave it in a big jug at Wine Kitz (Canadian franchise) for the fermentation process. Usually 30 days to 45
days. Then we bottle it and bring it home for further fermentation. 30 days for white, sometimes sooner; and 60+ days for red. The longer the better
for the reds. Some of the results are astoundingly good! Some are as expected.
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Sign up for the Punta Banda newsletter and ask your question......add that you understand there are people in the area that are vinting (???)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/puntabandanewsletter/
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Thanks, I will.
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