Proper Equipment Storage
When done using your winemaking equipment, make sure it is properly cleaned and stored so it will be ready to use next harvest season.
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We review the top 100 wine kits of 2017. Plus, tips on bottling your wine, learn everything you need to know about oxygen in your wine, and make chocolate-infused wine.
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articleChocolate Infused Wine
Wine and chocolate are a match made in heaven. But it doesn’t have to be two separate delicacies. Home winemakers can actually combine the two by infusing wine with chocolate.
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articleFermentation Dynamics
There are temperature ranges advisable for fermenting all wine styles, but how does each end of that range affect the aroma, taste, and body of your wine?
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articleTop 100 Wine Kits for 2017
Here are the top 100 wine kits from the 2017 WineMaker Magazine International Amateur Wine Competition.
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techniqueMicro-oxidation in White Wines: Tips from the Pros
Not all white wines should be treated equally when it comes to processing juice. Here are some helpful tips and insights winemakers should consider when they approach their next batch of white wine — when to go for a more oxidative approach to the juice and when to go for less.
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articleThe Basics of Sulfite
Learn the basics of what sulfur dioxide is, as well as when and how to use sulfite in your winemaking.
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articleWhat’s This? and Calculating Proper Yeast Pitching
To quote one of my favorite UC-Davis professors, the newly-retired Dr. Linda Bisson, “No human pathogen can survive in wine.”
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wine-wizardYeast Pitching Rates
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techniqueImpact of Oxygen on Winemaking
Oxygen’s presence or absence at the various stages of winemaking can have extraordinarily important and lasting effects on what our wines taste like. Too much and you risk oxidation damage, too little and you risk reduction stink. The effects of oxygen on wine, much more so with red wines, may be the most complex and least understood part of the winemaking process.
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articleConfessions: Revealing a secret to my success
A California winemaker confesses his secret to making a good wine blend great through the use of his secret weapon.
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What’s This?
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articleLet’s Bottle!
From cleaners to corkers, there are many options on the market for the home winemaker for the home winemaker when it comes time to get your wine into the bottle.