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• Vacuum Degassing: Wine Kits
  • Before bottling, wine kits need to be stirred vigorously to expel residual carbon dioxide. But what if vigorous stirring isn't your thing. Time to enter into a vacuum.
• The Winemaker's Wife: Dry Finish
  • A wife writes about her husband's new love.
• Common Grape Growing Questions: Backyard Vines

  • Got grape questions? Our Backyard Vines columnist pens the mailbag to answer reader questions on how to plant a vineyard and how much it will cost.

• Force-Carbonating Wine to Sparkle: Technique

  • With a Cornelius keg and a counter-pressure bottler you can carbonate and bottle some sparkling wine in the same afternoon.

• Carmine: Varietal Focus
  • Bred, by plant geneticist Dr. Harold Olmo, as a cross between Carignane and Caberbet Sauvignon, Carmine is a colorful and cold-tolerant grape variety with good tannin structure.
• Cork Questions: Wine Wizard
  • The master of must answers your winemaking questions.
• Making Icewine: Tips from the Pros

  • Find 'em or freeze 'em -- tips on making icewine from grapes, no matter whether you live in chilly Canada or sunny California.

• Reader Resources
  • Click here for links to advertisers appearing in the December 2006-January 2007 issue of WineMaker.
• 2006 WineMaker Story Index
  • All content from the six WineMaker issues of 2006 categorized by subject.
• The Top 100 Kits

  • A rundown of the top 100 scoring kit entries from our annual competition that have shown the potential in a blind judging format to make excellent wines. Organized both by numerical order and wine style categories for easy reference.

• Understanding Sparkling Wines

  • A rundown of all the various methods employed in the production of sparkling wines around the world.

• Secrets of Dom Pérignon
  • Back in the late 1600s, an old monk developed some new tricks with his sparkling wine. Find out what his modern counterpart does to make his namesake Champagne so special.
• Méthode "Home-penoise"

  • In Champagne, the French make bubbly using the "méthode Champenoise." In your home, use this method to make your own sparkling wine.

• 2006 WineMaker Label Contest Winners
  • Ever judged a wine by its label? We do every year and here are the best for 2006.
• Lessons of the Mosel Masters

  • Find out what German winemakers do -- and don't do -- when they are making their world-class Rieslings.

• Cellar Dwellers
  • An inspiring trip to Napa, award-winning icewines and the Space Coast Wine Guild. Plus: a beginner's guide to maceration