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Vegan Winemaking Products
Manufacturers have recently released many plant-based or microbial-sourced products. Learn about these products, even if vegan isn’t your pr
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Chitosan: For more than just fining
Chitosan is a product every home winemaker should be familiar with, and likely has around their cellar. It is used to help clarify wine, but
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Taming Tartness, Adding Body, & Non-Alcoholic Wine
The Wine Wiz offers her wizdom to bring a tart wine into balance, as well as ways to add body to a wine and why non-alcoholic wine productio
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Can I make non-alcoholic wine?
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Taming Tartness
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Bag in a Barrel Build
An amateur winemaker/woodworker shares a do-it-yourself project that combines both of his favorite hobbies. The build repurposes a 5-L (1.3-
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Temperature-Controlled Cooler
Realizing the large temperature swings in his garage don’t make for a great environment to conduct fermentations, a home winemaker convert
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2025 Label Contest Winners
We share our favorite amateur wine labels entered into WineMaker’s 2025 Label Contest — from a faceless woman and a woman’s face seemi
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Racking in Moonlight, Acetobacter, Fermenting “dry,” and White Winemaking
While there are a lot of urban myths surrounding winemaking, the one about racking under a full moon isn’t totally hogwash. Plus, what to
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Racking by the Light of the Moon
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Determining when wine is “dry”
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Technique
It’s All Fine and Good
There are many different types of fining agents available to home winemakers that fall into these four groupings: Mineral, polysaccharide, s