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• I was thinking of adding oak chips in cheesecloth to a gallon carboy of red Zinfandel for one month; any experience with this?
• Can you remove excess sulfite from a batch of wine?
• Advertiser Reader Service
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• Making Sparkling Wine from Kits: Wine Kits
  • It christens our ships and ushers in our New Year. It\'s champagne, and we\'ll show you how to make this sparkling wine from a kit.
• Wrecked Riesling & Adding Oak: Wine Wizard

  • The wise one answers your home winemaking questions.

• Dry Finish
  • Vintage Vintners: Making properly aged wine at an assisted-living home in Virginia.
• The Vineyard Quiz: Backyard Vines
  • Think you know your stuff? Test your knowledge of vineyards with our pop quiz.
• Dressing Up with Capsules: Techniques
  • You put a lot of effort into making your wines taste great. How about making them look great , too? Make your neck stick out by adding a capsule to your wine bottle!
• Pinot Gris: Varietal Focus
  • Need a white wine that goes well with a wide variety of food? Try Pinot Gris, a grape whose time has come....again.
• Punching Down the Cap: Tips from the Pros
  • In red wines, the cap must be pushed down into the juice regularly during the early stages of fermentation. Three commercial winemakers dish out tips on how to do this.
• Cellar Dwellers
  • A home winemaking inventor, clubs from Delaware and Alabama and balloon wine?
• Mail
  • Where to get bonsai grapevines, when not to blend and aging wine in barrels.
• Finding Closure
  • Some wineries estimate that 10 percent of their wines are affected by TCA, while others turn to -- gasp! -- synthetic corks and screw caps. Cork taint also can happen at home. Here\'s how to avoid it.
• Muscadine: Southern Comfort!
  • Discovered in the 1500s by Sir Walter Raleigh, the thick-skinned muscadine grape thrives across the hot and humid Southeast. Here\'s how to make a fine sipping wine from this ubiquitious southern fruit, with three recipes, a handy guide to common varieties, tips from award-winning muscadine winemakers and more.
• Pruning Your Backyard Vineyard
  • Pruning your grapevines during dormancy is the key to growing grapes that make high-quality wine. Learn the lowdown on lopping your vines and master the two most common styles: cane and spur pruning.