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  Live Chat with Bob Peak

  Live chat with Bob Peak, which took place January 26, 2022.

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  Live Chat with Phil Plummer

  Live chat with Phil Plummer, which took place December 22, 2021.

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  Drawing Inspiration from Valpolicella

  Wineries can, and often do, create four distinct wines from a single vineyard in the Italian Valpolicella region. Amarone is the most famous

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  Preserved in Amber

  Orange wines, created by fermenting white grapes on the skins, are likely as old as winemaking itself. However, these complex and age-worthy

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  Top 100 Wine Kits of 2021

  There were 499 kit wines judged in the 2021 WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition. Many of these kit wines received medals and to

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  Turning Kits to Gold

  Wine kits come with all of the necessary ingredients to make a great tasting batch of wine. So how come all of these wines don’t come out

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  Spit Or Swallow? Health benefits from spitting wine

  One reader who is also a medical doctor discusses the potential health benefits of wine tasters who swish and spit their wines. It may be on

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  Evaluating Wine: Being mindful of the sensory experience

  Using all your senses when tasting wine is always encouraged by wine evaluation experts, but make sure that you are taking in the whole expe

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  Blaufränkisch or Lemberger: International grape of mystery

  As with many Old World grapes that are grown widely, Blaufränkisch goes by many names. And thanks to its versatility in the winery and cool

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  Uneven Ripening, Sensing Ripeness, and Killer Yeast

  It’s hard to get universal ripening of your grapes in a small vineyard with lots of variability. The Wizard provides some pointers as well