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Sniffing The Cork, Screwcap Closures and the Facts About Wine Headaches

Interestingly, a cork may smell “tainted” and the wine below it might be just fine, or, better said the wine in the bottle may be below

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The Facts About Wine Headaches

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Screwcap Closures

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Sniffing The Cork

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What’s This? and Calculating Proper Yeast Pitching

To quote one of my favorite UC-Davis professors, the newly-retired Dr. Linda Bisson, “No human pathogen can survive in wine.”

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Yeast Pitching Rates

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Submerge Those Oak Chips, Wine Yields and a Copper Problem

I actually prefer using a sock or some kind of bag rather than just having chips float loose on the surface.

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Dealing With A Copper Problem

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Some Reductive Resolutions, Using Essential Oils, and Residual Sugar

You might want to try gradually introducing a little more oxygen into your winemaking process, especially early on when wines are more resil

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Calculating Residual Sugar

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Making White Zinfandel

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Dealing With Volatile Acidity