Norton and Muscadine wine making

I found a local vineyard that sells Norton and Muscadine grapes.  Had planned to pick 200-400lbs of Norton, but after several hours of picking and having to pick out the bad grapes from 90% of the bunches, decided to pick muscadines instead.

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Here is a good bunch, not many were like this.

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Here are the Muscadines.

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Ended up with 40 lbs of Norton grape and 60 lbs of muscadine.  It takes about 100 lbs of fruit to make 6 gallons, soooooo that’s right I got lazy and just decided to crush them together.  I know you shouldn’t mix, but dude I was wiped out after picking most of the day.  By the way you pick muscadine, one grape at a time.

So here is what it looks like after yeast and the fermentation working well.

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