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Impact 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 volat

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Back Sweetening Wine Techniques

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Chaptalization and Fermentation

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Making Your First Wine

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Using Variable Volume Wine Tanks

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Kegging Your Wine

While kegged wine has become fairly common in some bars, home winemakers still traditionally bottle. Learn some of the basics to kegging you

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Whole Cluster Pressing: Tips from the Pros

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Gum Arabic: Winemaking’s Secret Weapon

Gum arabic can do so many great things for your wines, from improving mouthfeel, making a thin wine taste fuller bodied, rounding out rough

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Making Fortified Wine

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The Relationship of pH and Acid in Winemaking

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Make Your Own Red Wine Aroma Sensory Kit

An aroma kit will help improve your ability to pick out aromas in a glass of wine. You can buy a kit for over $100, or make your own for a f

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Award-Winning Red Wine Blends Roundtable

Five top medal winners from the WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition share the secrets of their red wine blending success.

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Build a Champagne Bottle Capper

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Making Tropical Fruit Wine

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Making Late Harvest Wines: Tips from the Pros

We’ve pooled advice from three pros with numerous accolades for their dessert wines to help you make an award-winning late harvest wine at

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Using Outside Labs to Run Analysis Tests on your Wine

Here is some advice on when, why, or even whether you might want to take advantage of having a lab test your wine.

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A Year in a Home Vineyard

From winter dormancy all the way through fall harvest, follow the annual lifecycle of a grapevine in this author’s New York home vineyard.

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Tannin Additions in Wine Kits

Making kit wines doesn’t have to be only about following directions. Improve your wines by using tannin additions at various stages.

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Top 100 Wine Kits 2014

This past April 2014, over 50 experienced judges evaluated a total of 1,460 wine kit entries as part of the 2014 WineMaker International Ama

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Vineyard Winter Maintenance: Tips from the Pros

All done using their energy to grow shoots, grapes and leaves, vines in the winter begin storing water prior to the first frost and then go

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Co-Inoculation with Wine Yeasts and Bacteria

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

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

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

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Winemaking Tips from Bordeaux

Bordeaux wine styles are the dreams, the ultimate goal of Cabernet and/or Merlot winemakers everywhere. Whether the wines are called Caberne