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!
Aug/Sep 2014
How to get started on your first wine. Plus, modifying your fermentation tanks, kegging your wine, and cluster pressing tips.
In this issue
-
-
wine-wizardStuck Fermentations
-
wine-wizard
Pomace Compost
-
articleAlternative Sweeteners, Pomace Compost, and Stuck Fermentations
If you add some kind of sweetener that is fermentable (table sugar, grape concentrate, maple syrup, honey, etc.) you risk an uncontrolled re-fermentation in the bottle, which is never fun.
-
article
Momentum
Hope, strength and faith are the story behind Bob and Sonya Evanosky’s Momentum wine label.
-
-
techniqueImpact of Barrel Kinetics and Dynamics on Wine
Oak wood imparts what is generally referred to as toasted-oak aromas and flavors, but more specifically, these include a varied set of volatile compounds, from aldehydes to oak lactones, and non-volatile compounds.
-
techniqueBack Sweetening Wine Techniques
-
techniqueChaptalization and Fermentation
-
-
techniqueUsing Variable Volume Wine Tanks
-
techniqueKegging Your Wine
While kegged wine has become fairly common in some bars, home winemakers still traditionally bottle. Learn some of the basics to kegging your wine.
-
articleMuscadine: A taste of the South
Muscadine is a grape variety from the South that is used in many culinary recipes, but also makes a fine wine.
-
wine-wizard
Alternative Sweeteners
-
