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Adjusting Acid In An Aged Wine

By Alison Crowe

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Freezing Grape Must

By Alison Crowe

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Over-Sulfited My Wine

By Alison Crowe

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Sulfite Question When Blending Wine

By Alison Crowe

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Japanese Beetles, Freezing Grapes, and Adjusting Aged Wine

By Alison Crowe

A really innovative and completely natural way to control Japanese beetles is to implement a longer-term biological control program utilizing one of the insect’s natural enemies, the ‘milky spore’ bacteria.

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Grape Stomping Party

By Richard Bleakley

A WineMaker reader shares their story of the genesis for an annual birthday grape stomp party.

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Co-Inoculation with Wine Yeasts and Bacteria

By Daniel Pambianchi

Ask 5 winemakers and you may get 6 opinions about co-inoculation. But what does the science say?

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Maintaining a Home Wine Cellar

By Bob Peak

Here are some tips and suggestions on cellaring your homemade wine and maintaining the cellar itself.

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Home Vineyard Extreme Cold Weather Tips

By Ed Kwiek

The degrees of cold temperature damage that can occur in grapevines, techniques to assess that damage, and ways to protect them.

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Oxidation in Winemaking

By Daniel Pambianchi

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Winemaking Tips from Bordeaux

By Daniel Pambianchi

Bordeaux wine styles are the dreams, the ultimate goal of Cabernet and/or Merlot winemakers everywhere. Whether the wines are called Cabernet–Merlot blends, Meritage, or simply Bordeaux-style blends, the styles from this region of France are the most copied.

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Adding Sugar to your Wine

By Dale Ims

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Petite Sirah

By Chik Brenneman

The clusters are small and dense. When you crush and de-stem, the color almost immediately begins to release from the skins.

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Japanese Beetles

By Alison Crowe

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Troubleshooting Wine Kit Aroma

By Tim Vandergrift