Blending

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Blending White Wines

Blending is often associated with red wines, but blending white wines can also be advantageous to create a balanced wine in certain situatio

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Experimenting With Ways to Craft Rosé

A pair of home winemakers share the results from trials they conducted this past harvest in techniques for making rosé. The results offer i

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Tips for Blending Wine

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Red Bordeaux-Style Blends: Tips from the Pros

Three pros making high-end red Bordeaux-style blends share their advice on crafting these complex, elegant wines.

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Fruit & Grape Blends

When a wine comes up lacking, the solution may just be blending a totally different type of wine with it. Grape wines and wines made from ot

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Blending Vinifera and Hybrid Grapes

Vitis vinifera grapes are often thought to be the species used to make wine in the premier wine regions, while French-American hybrid grapes

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Better Together: Creating Red Blends

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Blending Italian Red Wines

Three North American winemakers share their best advice for blending red Italian varieties that are often lesser known and less common in th

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Pat Henderson’s Blending Spreadsheet

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Blending with Malbec: Tips from the Pros

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Fortify It! Adding Spirits To Your Wine

Your first fortified wine can be a little intimidating. Learn the various methods to produce a fortified wine of your own.

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Blending Bench Trials

Get the basics of what goes into doing wine blending bench trials at home.

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Field Blending

Blends are most often made from varietal wines prior to bottling, but field blending, where all of the varieties are harvested and fermented

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Blending Basics

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Wine Blending Partners

Blending accomplishes several goals in winemaking. It can be done to improve flavor, mouthfeel, cover a defect, balance the chemical profile

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Meritage Roundtable: Tips on Making Bordeaux-Style Blends in the New World

We asked four commercial winemakers the same series of questions about making a red Meritage. There were a lot of different thoughts on how

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Blending Fruit and Grape Wines

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Award-Winning Red Wine Blends Roundtable

Five top medal winners from the WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition share the secrets of their red wine blending success.

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Winemaking Tips from Bordeaux

Bordeaux wine styles are the dreams, the ultimate goal of Cabernet and/or Merlot winemakers everywhere. Whether the wines are called Caberne

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Super Blends

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Wine Blending: Tips from the Pros

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Better White Blends

There are lots of reasons to try blending white wines, such as adding complexity, correcting a deficiency, or simply making something fun an

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Confessions: Revealing a secret to my success

A California winemaker confesses his secret to making a good wine blend great through the use of his secret weapon.

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Blending Stuck Wine

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We just blended a 55-gal. (210-L) oak barrel with a blend of 60% Zinfindel and 40% Merlot…