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Using Fining Agents

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Luscious Port Wine

Learn to make your own Port-style wine at home.

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Wine Kit First Aid

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What would happen if you added a vanilla bean to red wine in hopes of getting some vanilla flavors traditionally given off by oak barrels?

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Mead Made Easy

Mead — also known as honey wine — is every bit as complex and variable as grape wine. Learn the ins and outs of making your own mead.

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It’s Lysozyme Time

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Build 3 Winemaking Projects

Build a cart to roll your fermenter around easily, a stainless racking cane, and cap plonker.

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Upgrade Your Home Winery

When you start getting more serious about the winemaking hobby and find yourself making more batches a year, you may be in for an equipment

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Measuring Residual Sugar

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Picking the Right Wine Kit

Modern wine kits first began appearing in the 1970s. While they still follow the format of ready-to-dilute-and-ferment stuff in a package, t

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Picking the Right Wine Kit

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Bottling: Tips from the Pros

Three longtime pro winemakers share their advice for amateurs related to bottling wines.

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The ABCs of Making Z

In the early days of the California wine industry, growers found that Zinfandel was a good “workhorse” grape that did well in a variety

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Building a Cool Cellar

Many options exist for storing wines. But if you do plan for that dream cellar, this guide will help you, too, save headaches and money.

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The Joys of Blending

Blending different grape varieties to make a better finished wine is a bedrock practice in the commercial wine world — and one often overl

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What can I do to improve the aroma of my mead?

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What can I do to prevent my recurring problem of excess CO₂ in my wines?

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Riesling: Varietal Focus

Riesling is known for its potential longevity and ability to develop characteristics of individual vineyard sites without losing traditional

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I am getting different gravity readings in my just-crushed juice from samples taken from the top and bottom of the vessel. What’s going on and is there a proper place to take these readings?

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My first white wine has a fizziness and tasted like it is almost carbonated. Do you have any suggestions?

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Aging Gracefully

All of the factors that go into when and how to age a wine make this a topic worth spending time on.

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Who Wants to be a Winemaker?

Take out a pencil and test your winemaking knowledge using this fun quiz. Let’s play “Who Wants to be a Winemaker?”

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Mid-Season Vineyard Tips

Wes Hagen runs through some common wine faults that are a result of vineyard practices and how to avoid them.

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Using Variable-Volume Fermenters

Variable-volume fermenters have a floating-lid that transforms these tanks into variable-capacity containers for fermentation as well as sho

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Seyval Blanc: Varietal Focus

Seyval Blanc produces abundant crops in cold climates and offers the winemaker an opportunity to make a variety of wines from one grape.