Blending Bench Trials
Get the basics of what goes into doing wine blending bench trials at home.
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Top home winemakers share their tips and techniques for making award-winning red blends. Plus, create your own wine aroma kit.
Get the basics of what goes into doing wine blending bench trials at home.
Most top-scoring red wines made in the U.S. are bottled after 18–24 months in barrel.
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Gum arabic can do so many great things for your wines, from improving mouthfeel, making a thin wine taste fuller bodied, rounding out rough edges of grape tannins, increasing persistence of bubbles in sparkling wine, prolonging the action of metatartaric acid, to treating iron-induced oxidation problems.
An aroma kit will help improve your ability to pick out aromas in a glass of wine. You can buy a kit for over $100, or make your own for a fraction of that.
Five top medal winners from the WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition share the secrets of their red wine blending success.
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We’ve pooled advice from three pros with numerous accolades for their dessert wines to help you make an award-winning late harvest wine at home.
A quick explanation of what malolactic fermentation is, and how/when you may want to do it.
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