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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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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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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

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Using Yeast Nutrients

One of the most important conditions for your yeast to thrive is an abundance of nutrients. If the must doesn’t provide enough naturally,

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Red Hybrid Color Stabilization: Tips from the Pros

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Make Wines to Age

It starts with great fruit, but to make age-worthy red wine the winemaker must also consider acidity, tannins, sulfur dioxide, oxygen, cella

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Yeast Trials With Wine Kits

Just because your wine kit comes with a certain yeast, that doesn’t mean you can’t experiment with other options.

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Using Inert Gases in Winemaking

Blanket, flush, sparge, transfer, dispense. To exclude air while doing any of these things to your wine, your best bet is the use of an iner

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Winemaking From Frozen Must

Frozen musts provide the ability to make wine anytime regardless of harvest timing.

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Making the Most of Your Winery Visit

Heading to wine country is a field trip for adults. As a home winemaker, here is how to get the most out of your visit.

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Quick Drinking Wine Kits

Strategies for getting the most out of wine you’re going to drink insanely young — like on bottling day, or even earlier.

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To Malo Or Not To Malo?

Many home winemakers are uncertain on whether or not to have their wines go through malolactic fermentation. This is not surprising since th

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Cool Fermentations

Want to preserve the delicate aromas in your white wines? Learn these hot tips for running a cool fermentation.

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Award-Winning Red Winemakers Roundtable

Three amateur winemakers with shelves full of medals to their names for their homemade wines share advice for making great reds.

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Choosing A Wine Yeast Strain

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Cold Soaking: Tips from the Pros

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Cabernet Sauvignon – Syrah Wine Blends

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Using Enzymes: Tips from the Pros

Three pros share which enzymes they use in their winemaking, common mistakes made with them, and how to get the most from enzymes.

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Fruit and Grape Blends: Tips from the Pros

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Force-Carbonating Wine to Sparkle: Counter pressure bottle method

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Riesling Lessons of the Mosel Masters

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Kegging Wine

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Negative Impacts of Oxygen

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Picking the Proper Wine Yeast: Tips from the Pros

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Delestage Fermentation: Techniques

Delestage is a two-step “rack-and-return” process in which fermenting red wine juice is separated from the grape solids by racking and t