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Special Purpose Wine Yeasts

Yeast are fairly simple, single-celled organisms. But their diversity, functionality, and ability to adapt is why humans, and especially win

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Submerge Those Oak Chips

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Fining for Beginners

Learn the ins and outs of fining wine and the options to choose from.

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Starter Winemaking Equipment

Here’s the equipment you’ll need to get started at making wine.

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Wines, Naturally

Many wine experts are skeptical about natural winemaking techniques. Here we define and explore organic, biodynamic, and natural winemaking

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Home Wine Lab Testing: Tips from the Pros

Laboratory equipment for winemakers can be fiscally daunting, especially for beginning winemakers. That doesn’t mean that vital testing sh

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Impact of Oxygen on Winemaking

Oxygen’s presence or absence at the various stages of winemaking can have extraordinarily important and lasting effects on what our wines

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Confessions: Revealing a secret to my success

A California winemaker confesses his secret to making a good wine blend great through the use of his secret weapon.

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Let’s Bottle!

From cleaners to corkers, there are many options on the market for the home winemaker when it’s time to get your wine into the bottle.

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Birthday Planning: Dry Finish

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Wine Grape Cold Soaking Success

Cold soaking proponents believe that wines made utilizing a cold soak are more complex and fruit-forward, and exhibit improved color retenti