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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.
Montana is more than just the land of big skies — you can grow grapes there, too!
Nothing is worse than watching your grapes go to the birds. Fight back!
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.
Petit Verdot is one of the “big five” grapes that make up a Bordeaux blend. Learn more about this red blender.
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.
Making wine from tropical fruits, with a little know-how, is just as easy as making wine from traditional fruits and berries.