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Making Port-Style Wine Kits

A wine kit can save you time and trouble and allow you to make a great batch of Port with little fuss. Most Port kits come in a half-batch s

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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

Delestage Fermentation: Techniques

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7 Great Wine Kit Tips

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The Phenol Phenomenon

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Organic Grape Growing Techniques

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Using Fining Agents

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Wine Kit First Aid

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How Sweet It Is: Chaptalization

Chaptalization — the practice of adding sugar prior to fermentation — has numerous benefits to wines with low sugar content. Chief among

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It’s Lysozyme Time

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Measuring Residual Sugar

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Picking the Right Wine Kit

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Barrel Care Techniques

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Avoiding Wine Kit Pitfalls

We run through the most common errors new winemakers make when making wine from kits 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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Make Your Kit Wine Shine

Wine kits are sourced from vineyard all over the world, and top kits produce balanced wines with good character and varietal identity.

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Your Home Wine Lab

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Spring Cleaning for Winemakers: Tips from the Pros

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Choosing a Filtering System

Winemaking is not a science but rather an art. There are many opinions on the pros and cons of the various processes that winemakers use. Th

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Blue-Ribbon Home Winemaking Tips

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Second Press Runs to Get More from Your Grapes

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Adjust Wine Flavor in the Fermenter

No matter how fantastic your grapes or juice, rarely do you get the exact flavor you’re after without some kind of intervention. Here are so

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From Cleaning to Bottling: Tips from Adelsheim