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Determining a Wine’s Ageability

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Yeast choice for a fruit wine

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Dealing With Persistent Sediment

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A Quicker Route to Bubbles

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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 doesn�

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Finishing For Whites and Rosés

The time period leading up to bottling day is the time winemakers need to take advantage of last minute adjustments and additions. Bob Peak

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Reconfiguring Your Tasting Palate

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Sparkling Wines: Tips From the Pros

This Valentine’s Day, wouldn’t it be great to break open a bottle of your own homemade bubbly? Learn from two winemakers producing highl

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Chilled Red Wines

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Gum Arabic

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Get Crystal Clear About Filtration

If you want to serve a crystal clear and microbial stable wine, it will require filtration. Explore the “how” and “why” of wine filt

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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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Acetobacter Problems

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Sulfite Timing Question

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Using Tannins: Purposes, sources, and use in winemaking

Tannins can provide a wine with a lot more than just astringency. They can also be useful in white and rosé wines as well if used properly.

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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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Fantastic Fermentations

Careful attention must be paid to fermentation to achieve great wine. We gathered experts from four different yeast laboratories to glean ad

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Single-Batch Bottle Variability

If you’ve ever opened multiple bottles of wine made from the same batch and noticed they don’t taste identical, then you, too, have expe

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Wine Filtration 101

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Making Wine From Juice

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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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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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Minerality in Wine

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Fin(d)ing Clarity in the Five S’s

When it comes to clarifying your wine kit, there are five “S’s” that will guide your way: Start, stir, smash, sweep, and suppress.