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Ready to make wine at home? This is a great place to start. These articles explore the basics of winemaking from grapes, fresh juice, or wine kits, and provide some helpful advice to get you started. Be sure to check out our Resource Guides, and browse our Wine Wizard content if you get stuck.
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Technique
Backsweetening
Not all wines can or should be backsweetened, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn the process. Find out the basics of backsweeteni
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Wine Acid 101
Balance is often the key to producing a winning wine. This means knowing how to measure and adjust acidity if needed. Learn the basics of wi
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Getting Hardcore with Apples
Get some basic pointers for making hard cider or apple wine.
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Let’s Get Macerating
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Widen Your Winemaking Spectrum
Many winemakers and wine drinkers can get stuck in the mentality that wine is only made from Vitis vinifera grapes, and any other a
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Avoiding The Winemaker’s Pitfalls
Learn key tips to avoid common winemaking pitfalls.
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Keys To Great White Wine
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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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The Pearson Square
The Pearson Square is a tool to calculate the number of parts of two different solutions with different concentrations that are required to
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Wine Fermentation 101
You can ferment just about anything on this planet, if sugar is present. But all fermentation, including what takes place in your must, requ
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Malolactic Fermentation
Everything you need to know about malolactic fermentation, from what it is, ways to do it, how to test its completion, and more.
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Non-Grape Winemaking
Country wine is the informal term that has been used for years to define fermented beverages made from ingredients other than grapes.
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From Grape to Glass
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Seven habits Of Successful Kit Winemakers
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Wine Kit First Aid
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Making Raspberry Wine
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Good Oxygen
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Bad oxygen
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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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Making Cabernet Sauvignon
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New Skills: Master maceration
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Egg White Fining
An introduction to fining wine with egg whites.
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Topping Up Your Wine
What does “topping up” mean and when should it be done?
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Your First Lug of Grapes
Buying your first lug of grapes can be intimidating, but it does not need to be. Get some pointers before committing to your first box of gr
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The Basics of Sulfite
Learn the basics of what sulfur dioxide is, as well as when and how to use sulfite in your winemaking.