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  Top 5 Winemaking Mistakes to Avoid: Alison Crowe ’09 Download

  Napa-based professional winemaker Alison Crowe has answered hundreds of questions in her decade long role as WineMaker’s popular “Wine W

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  Traditional (and not) Sparkling Winemaking:Daniel Pambianchi ’09 Download

  Learn how to produce your own sparkling wine at home with professional winemaker and author Daniel Pambianchi. He’ll walk through the step

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  Understanding the Role of pH and Acidity: Pat Henderson ’09 Download

  pH and acidity are two intertwined keys to better wines. The more you know about the important impact of pH and acidity on the quality of th

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  Understanding Wine Aging: Bob Peak ’09 Download

  There are many myths and plenty of bad information out there about how a wine ages and how to determine when a wine is at its peak for drink

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  Using Liquid Wine Yeast Strains: Neva Parker ’09 Download

  For years professional brewers and homebrewers have primarily used liquid yeasts to produce award-winning beers. However, on the winemaking

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  Vine Pruning Strategies: Dr. Stephen J. Krebs ’09 Download

  Grapevines require careful pruning to promote balanced growth and better fruit quality. Understand the basic pruning styles including cane p

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  Vineyard Pest Management: Wes Hagen ’09 Download

  It turns out you are not the only one who is interested in harvesting your homegrown grapes. Find out the keys to control critters of all ty

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  Wine Defects Tasting: Jef L. Stebben ’09 Download

  At the 2008 Conference, award-winning professional winemaker Jef Stebben held a standing room only tasting of defective wine samples that pr

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  Wine Kit Blending: Lone Jorgensen ’09 Download

  Learn the keys to successfully blending different finished kit wines together and how blending can allow you to build up your cellar with an

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  Wine Kit First Aid: Tim Vandergrift ’09 Download

  Even good wine kits can sometimes take a bad turn. Off colors, bad odors and stuck fermentations are just a few potential troubles. Learn ho

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  WineMaker Workshop:Wine Component Tasting: Tim Vandergrift ’09 Download

  Essential wine components such as sugar, alcohol, acid, tannins and oak will be served in doctored wine samples to all conference attendees