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Homogenization Prior To Bottling

Why and how to to homogenize your wine prior to bottling.

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Preparing White Wines for Bottling

A look at the steps required in making white wines through winter and spring and how the timing of each step impacts when the wine is ready

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Bottling Basics

Familiarize yourself with the critical steps and equipment required to bottle your wine.

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Bottling Blues Leads to Kegging Thoughts

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Tasting Wine In Stages and Bottling Blues

As a winemaker evolves, learning how to evaluate their wine during different stages of maturation can be key. The Wine Wizard has some thoug

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Bottling Tips and Checklist

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Bottling Tips and Wine Judge Etiquette

Bottling is typically the final step towards producing wine where a winemaker can foul things up. Get some recommendations from the Wizard o

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Bottling Your First Batch

An introduction into bottling your first batch of wine.

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Bottling Your Wine

Bottling your wine requires careful planning, preparation, and execution.

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Year in a Life of a Wine Part VI (Bulk Aging and Bottling)

In the final installment of our year-long series, the wines are bulk aged, oaked, and bottled.

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I’ve heard both “yes” and “no” on soaking corks before bottling… So to soak or not to soak?

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I added grape concentrate to boost the sweetness of a dry wine at bottling and added sorbate. The flavor is good, but there is some kind of gas in the wine. Any thoughts on what happened?

I made a Muscadine wine this year that ended up very dry with harsh flavor. I wanted it to have more of a grape flavor so I added some grape

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Bottling: Tips from the Pros

Three longtime pro winemakers share their advice for amateurs related to bottling wines.

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Should I boil or soak my corks prior to bottling?

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From Cleaning to Bottling: Tips from Adelsheim

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Is it better to separate free-run wine from the pressed wine during fermentation and should they be blended before bottling if you are making Zinfandel?

Our Zinfandel wine is now in secondary fermenters, with free-run wine separate from the pressed. Do you have advice on allowing the free and

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Bottling, Start to Finish

The last step in making wine is putting it in the bottle. Learn the steps to do it safely and efficiently.

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Preparing Your Winery for Harvest

Harvest season is the most important — and demanding — time of year for home winemakers, and it’s not something you want to leave to l

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Set a Foundation With Kit Concentrates

Juice concentrate can be used for more than making kit wines. It is incredibly reliable, balanced, and easy to work with, which makes it a g

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Sampling for Ripeness

Harvest timing is the most important decision a winemaker will make, which means collecting accurate samples to base the decision on is crit

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Petit Verdot: Bordeaux’s Color Adjustor

Petit Verdot is most commonly used as a blending tool to boost color in red wines, though this unique, thick-skinned French grape also makes

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Dandelion Wine Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting dandelion wines that carbonated in bottles or browned early.

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How Wine Evolves in the Bottle

The Wine Wizard explains how wines evolve in the bottle, which is not always linear.

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