On July 17 learn late season grape growing and harvest techniques for your small-scale vineyard with “Backyard Vines” Columnist Wes Hagen. Register now to grow and harvest the best wine grapes this year!
In this issue, learn the secrets to crafting big red wines. Plus, tips on growing more intense wine grapes, and learn how to make your own sherry.
If you have a free wall in your garage, you can have your entire winery organized there. See the plans by Steve Hughes.
Oak barrels (and barrels made of other woods, sometimes acacia wood or even cherry wood) are really structurally amazing.
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 the finished product.
Want to make a big smashmouth red wine with grapes from your home vineyard? Then you’ll need to grow big or go home.
Sherry is the fortified wine from Jerez, Spain, made in soleras and conditioned with flor yeast.
. . .lurking inside the heads of many home winemakers is the urge to make an absolute blockbuster, a jaw-dropping, mind-bending, 800-pound gorilla of a wine.
Got the urge to make wine from grapes in the spring? All you need to do is get your hands on some grapes from the Southern Hemisphere.
Looking for a cold-hardy white to grow in a colder northern clime? Meet the University of Minnesota’s La Crescent.
For those that would like to start getting a better handle on the fermentation temperature of their wines, you’ve found the right spot.
Make wine from fresh grapes in April — with grapes harvested in the Southern Hemisphere.
Want to preserve the delicate aromas in your white wines? Learn these hot tips for running a cool fermentation.