Making Wine

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Sugar Conversion Tables

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Everything Wine: Scavenging up a new hobby

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Dealing With Persistent Sediment

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Let’s Get Macerating

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A Quicker Route to Bubbles

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Complementing Food: Teaching winemaking to young chefs

The culinary world and hobby winemaking collide in an upstate New York college campus where one man’s mission is to introduce the winemaki

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Italian Techniques for Bubbles

There are many ways to make sparkling or spritzy wines. An Italian winemaker offers tips for two methods used in regions of Italy — Govern

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One Grape, Many Styles

There are many reasons that 10 wines made from the same grape may taste completely different, and often it is because the winemaker planned

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Small Batch Barrels

Barrels offer a lot more benefits to wine than just oak taste and tannins, but full-size barrels are often out of reach for the home winemak

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Beyond the Barrel

If a barrel isn’t in your immediate winemaking plans — or if your barrel has been filled so many times it has become neutral in oak char

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Lees and You: Dead yeast can be your friend

Aging on fine lees has traditionally been reserved for Muscadets, white Burgundy wines, and classic champenoise-style wines, but that doesnâ

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Finishing For Whites and Rosés

The time period leading up to bottling day is the time winemakers need to take advantage of last minute adjustments and additions. Bob Peak