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  Lees: The Good, The Bad, & The Smelly

  The benefits of aging white wine on the lees includes a softer mouthfeel, added weight and texture, added complexity, and a smoothing of the

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  Blending White Wines

  Blending is often associated with red wines, but blending white wines can also be advantageous to create a balanced wine in certain situatio

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  Wine Filtration

  Filtering isn’t glamorous, but it is often a necessary step toward brilliantly clear and microbially stable wine in the bottle. Learn the

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  Experimenting With Ways to Craft Rosé

  A pair of home winemakers share the results from trials they conducted this past harvest in techniques for making rosé. The results offer i

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  Chitosan: For more than just fining

  Chitosan is a product every home winemaker should be familiar with, and likely has around their cellar. It is used to help clarify wine, but

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  Racking in Moonlight, Acetobacter, Fermenting “dry,” and White Winemaking

  While there are a lot of urban myths surrounding winemaking, the one about racking under a full moon isn’t totally hogwash. Plus, what to

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  Dubunking Consumer Myths, Yeast Impact on MLF & pH Adjustments

  If you sometimes prefer your red wines served a little on the cool side or are not afraid of buying high-end wines with screw cap closures,

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  School of Thought

  With so many wine certification programs available, how do you know which may be the best fit for you? We break down some of the differences

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  Cellaring Bottled Wine for Beginners

  Aging bottled wine properly is key to let certain wine styles to fully develop. Make sure the conditions you are providing are right.

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  Evaluating Your Finished Wines

  Get tips on how to properly taste and evaluate your homemade wines.

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  Finishing Wines With a Secondary Fermentation

  Most red and some white wines are put through a secondary malolactic fermentation (MLF). The process converts malic acid to lactic acid, whi

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  Call of the Wild

  Wild fermentations can often bring a level of complexity to a wine not always found using commercial Saccharomyces strains. But the tradeoff

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  Bottle Capsules

  Wine bottle capsules can take many forms. Reader Nicholas Cozzarelli takes us on a tour of the various kinds and how they are applied.

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  Craft Beer-Influenced Winemaking

  A trend has emerged from the world of craft beer as some notable brewers have begun releasing wines. What sets these wines apart is an unusu

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  Red Bordeaux-Style Blends: Tips from the Pros

  Three pros making high-end red Bordeaux-style blends share their advice on crafting these complex, elegant wines.

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  Keys to Successful Fermentations

  No two fermentations are the same, which means that there is always more to be learned with each one! Give your yeast the best chance for su

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  Fruit & Grape Blends

  When a wine comes up lacking, the solution may just be blending a totally different type of wine with it. Grape wines and wines made from ot

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  Non-Conventional Yeast: Tailor-made solutions for new challenges

  Many of us in winemaking were trained to trust Saccharomyces yeast and not leave our wines to chance with wild strains. But winds of change

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  Blending Vinifera and Hybrid Grapes

  Vitis vinifera grapes are often thought to be the species used to make wine in the premier wine regions, while French-American hybrid grapes

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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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  Maceration Considerations

  As harvest nears it is time to make a plan of action for how you will proceed with each batch you plan to make this fall. With red wines the

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  The Alcohols

  Ethanol may be the most prominent and well-known alcohol in wine, but it is not the only one to play a large role in a wine’s character. L

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  Sur Lie Aging

  Aging wines on the lees can add aromatic complexity, soften tannins, enrich mouthfeel, protect it from oxygen, feed malolactic bacteria, and

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  The ABC’s of MLF

  If you make your own wine, no matter what kind, the concept of malolactic fermentation (MLF) should be well embedded in your mind. Learn som

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  The Role of Varietal Thiols in White Wines

  Volatile thiols are delicate but powerful aromatic compounds released during fermentation. Through careful techniques and yeast selection, t