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Matching Wine Style to Vineyard Site

Evaluate the specific aspects of your vineyard site to determine the best wine style to grow on your property.

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Using Enzymes in Country Wines

Country fruit wines can be quite difficult to achieve the desired color, aroma, and clarity levels. Here is a look at the various enzymes ty

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Carbonic Maceration

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Special Purpose Wine Yeasts

Yeast are fairly simple, single-celled organisms. But their diversity, functionality, and ability to adapt is why humans, and especially win

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Fining for Beginners

Learn the ins and outs of fining wine and the options to choose from.

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Wines, Naturally

Many wine experts are skeptical about natural winemaking techniques. Here we define and explore organic, biodynamic, and natural winemaking

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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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Let’s Bottle!

From cleaners to corkers, there are many options on the market for the home winemaker when it’s time to get your wine into the bottle.

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Wine Grape Cold Soaking Success

Cold soaking proponents believe that wines made utilizing a cold soak are more complex and fruit-forward, and exhibit improved color retenti

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How Wine Yeast Works

In addition to alcoholic fermentation, the yeast used to ferment wine also metabolize other substances into byproducts. Learn more about how

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Blending Stuck Wine

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What To Consider When Selecting A Yeast

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Drinking From Brass

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Using Yeast Nutrients

One of the most important conditions for your yeast to thrive is an abundance of nutrients. If the must doesn’t provide enough naturally,

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Perfecting and Protecting Wine Color

It’s said that people eat and drink with their eyes, and when it comes to wine there is no exception.Find out how to create and protect the

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Red Hybrid Color Stabilization: Tips from the Pros

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Clearing A 23-Year-Old Concord Wine

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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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Wild Fermentations

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Selecting Yeast Roundtable

For tips on selecting the best strains to get the job done, we asked four experts with various wine and yeast-related backgrounds to give us

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Yeast Trials With Wine Kits

Just because your wine kit comes with a certain yeast, that doesn’t mean you can’t experiment with other options.

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Using Inert Gases in Winemaking

Blanket, flush, sparge, transfer, dispense. To exclude air while doing any of these things to your wine, your best bet is the use of an iner

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Winemaking From Frozen Must

Frozen musts provide the ability to make wine anytime regardless of harvest timing.

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Making the Most of Your Winery Visit

Heading to wine country is a field trip for adults. As a home winemaker, here is how to get the most out of your visit.

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Making the Most of Your Winery Visit