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Your First Wine From Fresh Grapes

All the basic know-how you need to make your first wine from fresh grapes.

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Your First Wine from a Kit

Everyone knows that good grapes make world-class wine. But in recent years, the quality of kit wines has improved enough to impress even the

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Swamp Donkey Vineyards: Growing Grapes in New England

A reader starts a vineyard in New England. “It is great to wake up in the morning, make a cup of coffee and walk out to the vineyard to chec

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Vineyard Queries: A Year of Questions and Answers

This past year brought challenges and rewards for home vineyardists — and also a lot of questions for our vineyard expert Wes Hagen.

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Pinotage: The Red Grape of South Africa

Pinotage is the most recognized — though not the most widely grown — South African red wine grape.

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Blending Basics

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Harrogate Wine Club: A Love For Wine Doesn’t Age

When we are together bottling, corking and labeling the wine, we are all eager and happy to complete the project at hand, so we can enjoy th

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Quest For The Big Red: Growing Red Grapes For Color and Impact

Want to make a big smashmouth red wine with grapes from your home vineyard? Then you’ll need to grow big or go home.

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La Crescent: Cold-Climate Hybrid

Looking for a cold-hardy white to grow in a colder northern clime? Meet the University of Minnesota’s La Crescent.

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Fermentation Temperature Control

For those that would like to start getting a better handle on the fermentation temperature of their wines, you’ve found the right spot.

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Keys to a Healthy Canopy

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Syrah: Versatile, bold and colorful

Australia recognizes Syrah as Shiraz. It is presumed that the name stuck as the cuttings that were brought to the country in the 1830s by Ja

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Small Batch Winemaking

Tips for beginners looking to make small batches of wine.

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Growing Rhône: Varietals to try in your backyard

An overview of the Rhone varieties you may be able to grow in your own backyard.

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Chenin Blanc: The taste of terroir

Viticulturists in the Loire Valley tend to describe its flavor as an expression of the terroir of the land.

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Prepping Your First Barrel

Tips for beginners on how to prepare their first barrel.

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Vineyard Q&A (2012 Edition)

Wes Hagen answers your home vineyard questions.

Your First Mead

Tips for brewing your firs batch of mead.

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Home Winery Names

What’s in a name? If it’s a homewinery, it could be almost anything. Home winemakers explain their winery’s name.

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Cabernet Sauvignon: The king of red wine grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon is known for making some of the world’s most robust red wines.

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You, the Connoisseur

Tim Vandergrift on you, the “connoisseur.”

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Vigor in the Backyard

Vineyard vigor and how to keep it under control to grow the best grapes possible.

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Gewürztraminer

Alsace vineyards are tucked into the predominantly east facing slopes of the Vosges Mountains . . .

Volatile Acidity

An introduction into volatile acidity (VA) and how to avoid it.

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WineMaker Turns 15

A look at the numbers from 15 years of WineMaker magazine.