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White Wine Case Study

Take a closer look at the impact ripeness, yeast selection, oaking, enzymes, and other winemaking decisions has on the final wine.

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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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Cleaning & Sanitizing Techniques

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Red Hybrid Color Stabilization: Tips from the Pros

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Mastering Wine Acid Balance

Sometimes the acidity of your grapes, juice, or wine will need to be adjusted. Learn some of the finer details surrounding how, and when, to

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Award-Winning Kit Winemakers Roundtable

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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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Troubleshooting Wine Kit Aroma

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New World Winemaking Decisions

Some of these tools and techniques have been around for a number of years but may not have been available in every region.

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Troubleshooting Visual Defects in Wine Kits

No matter how a wine tastes, if it’s hazy, cloudy or (even worse!) lumpy, it’s not going to please the drinker.

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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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In the Wine Lab

As a home winemaker, testing your wine for certain things like Brix and pH are critical, while other tests are optional. Get to know the equ

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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

Unoaked Wine Kits

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Managing Acid in Fruit Wines

Take a look at the sources of acid in fruit wines and steps that can be taken to bring levels into a desirable range for wine.

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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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Enjoying Dessert Wine Kits

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Choosing A Wine Yeast Strain

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Tannin Chemistry

Soft, silky, velvety, youthful, puckery, aggressive, harsh, bitter, astringent: These are all adjectives used in winespeak to describe the m

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Oak Barrel Chemistry