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Tips on crafting two wine styles from one grape, berry winemaking, and mastering red maceration. Plus, the perfect pinot grigio.
. . . you could also buy some powdered grape tannin, use oak chips, or even use a cup of strong black tea to add some tannin backbone to the wine if it’d be tough for you to obtain grape skins.
An excerpt from Michael Paterniti’s new book THE TELLING ROOM: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese.
We review the different types of closures available to home winemakers with a view to understanding oxygen permeability and the impact on wine quality and aging potential.
Here each stage of wine production will be addressed from four aspects: inputs, numbers, problems, and solutions.
Today’s proposed violation takes on one of the dominant conventions of modern white winemaking: no skin contact.
To understand flavor balance in your wine, you must first understand some of the basic principles to consider when deciding whether or not to use oak or oak products.
Unknown to the science at the time, these genetic mutations were first noticed hundreds of years ago in Burgundy, France, where the mutants grew side by side, and sometimes within the same plant as Pinot Noir.
Making wine away from winemaking regions is becoming more popular. As these pros will tell you, urban winemaking comes with unique benefits and challenges.
How should fruit be prepared before using it to make country wines? Let’s have a look…
Not using oak on wine is a time-honored tradition for many varietals and styles, and often for good reason.