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Lees and You: Dead yeast can be your friend

Aging on fine lees has traditionally been reserved for Muscadets, white Burgundy wines, and classic champenoise-style wines, but that doesnâ

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Aging Wine Kits: Tips From the Pros

Kit wines are often consumed fairly young, but great things can happen if you allow the bottles to age longer. Two supply shop owners give g

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Aging Potential: Understanding the lifespan of your wine

We can use our knowledge of the wine’s chemistry and organoleptic attributes (color, odor, taste and feel) to evaluate how long a wine can

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Adjusting Acid In An Aged Wine

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Freezing Grape Must

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Glass vs. Wood

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Topping Up Your Wine

What does “topping up” mean and when should it be done?

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Fermentation and Aging Containers

Fermentation and aging vessels winemakers have to decide between include oak, glass, plastic, and stainless steel. Each has its own pros and

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Aging Country Fruit Wines

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Using Variable Volume Wine Tanks

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Maintaining a Home Wine Cellar

Here are some tips and suggestions on cellaring your homemade wine and maintaining the cellar itself.

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Bulk Wine Aging

There is more to cellaring bulk wine than meets the eye. Throughout the aging process, the winemaker is on a tightrope walk between interven

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Stock Your Wine Cellar

A home winemaker offers tips on how to keep your wine cellar stocked with a variety of wines.

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Bottle Shock

If you’ve done everything right in the winery and your wine tastes great going into the bottle, you might scratch your head when you open

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Crafting Age-Worthy White Wines

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Red Wine Sediment

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Cellaring Wines

Learn the basics of how and where to age your homemade wines.

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Year in a Life of a Wine Part VI (Bulk Aging and Bottling)

In the final installment of our year-long series, the wines are bulk aged, oaked, and bottled.

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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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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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Big Reds Aging Time

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What is the film forming inside my bottles?

You might be encouraged to know that finding a light film inside some bottles after wines have been aged for a few months is entirely normal

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Topping Up With Gas, Freezing Kit Juice: Wine Wizard

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Antique Grape Juice

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Aim for Age

What makes a wine age-worthy, and what can you do to create a wine worth cellaring.