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Seven habits Of Successful Kit Winemakers

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Wine Kit First Aid

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Making Raspberry Wine

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Good Oxygen

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Aging Potential: Understanding the lifespan of your wine

We can use our knowledge of the wine’s chemistry and organoleptic attributes (color, odor, taste and feel) to evaluate how long a wine can

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Making Chardonnay

Chardonnay is one of the world’s most popular wine grapes, grown across the world, and can be turned into many different wine styles.

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Making Cabernet Sauvignon

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New Skills: Master maceration

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Home Vineyard Bookshelf

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Zinfandel: ‘America’s’ grape

We all are familiar with White Zinfandel, the rosé style that enjoyed immense popularity in recent years and led to the emergence of a rosÃ

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Norton: New World nobility

The experts surmise Norton is likely a cross between V. aestivalis and an unknown V. vinifera species. There is possibly s

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Barbera

Barbera frequently comes in with high acidity but, with the right winemaking approach, it makes a food-friendly red for people who drink win

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Verdelho: More than Madeira

Verdelho is the most widely planted grape on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

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Tempranillo: Spanish nobility

Tempranillo is the predominant black grape variety from the northern wine region of Spain we know as the Rioja, and other regions of the Ibe

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Colombard: Crisp and versatile

Despite its innocuous character, Colombard is a good choice for home winemakers, as it is easy to work with and allows for a wide scope of t

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Sauvignon Blanc: The ‘wild white”

Sauvignon Blanc originated in the Loire Valley of France, and people started cultivating it as a wine grape starting sometime in the 19th ce

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Grenache: An international blender

In the vineyard, Grenache is extremely vigorous and needs a long growing season to mature all of its fruit.

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Riesling: German nobility

To this day, I consider that Riesling vintage one of the best wines I ever made, and I wish I could find a bottle or two in my cellar to tas

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Merlot: Noble grape of Bordeaux

. . . Merlot is the most common grape variety grown in France with about 280,000 acres.

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Nero d’Avola: The red grape of Sicily

. . . Sicily’s legacy of red wine is all about Nero d’Avola, second only to Catarratto Bianco. There are almost 18,000 hectares (about 4

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Egg White Fining

An introduction to fining wine with egg whites.

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Marquette: A hardy cold-climate hybrid

If you are looking for a cold-tolerant red grape, Marquette might be the varietal for you. Bred in Minnesota, this hybrid can withstand temp

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Understanding YAN

If you want to make good homemade wine, you should learn to manage your wines’ YAN — yeast assimilable nitrogen.