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Mellowing a Big Wine
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Understanding Bentonite, Refractometers vs. Hydrometers, and Mellowing A Big Wine
Most folks I talk to say that sodium bentonite and calcium bentonite are interchangeable in winemaking.
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Chlorine In My Wine
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Malolactic Problems and Cleaning with Chlorine
Some of the SO2 gas created by the sulfur wick certainly will transfer into the wine as sulfur dioxide.
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Wine Press Mold Growth and Magnesium Sulfate Vineyard Sprays
It’s very possible this mold bloom was caused by a change in the weather or a change in your cellar environment.
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Dealing With High Brix Grapes
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Is Potassium Sorbate In A Port Necessary?
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First-Time Barrel Soaking, Wine Flower and High Brix Grapes
It is entirely normal for the first soaking of a barrel to produce a dark-colored water.
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Sniffing The Cork, Screwcap Closures and the Facts About Wine Headaches
Interestingly, a cork may smell “tainted” and the wine below it might be just fine, or, better said the wine in the bottle may be below
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The Facts About Wine Headaches
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Screwcap Closures
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Sniffing The Cork
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What’s This? and Calculating Proper Yeast Pitching
To quote one of my favorite UC-Davis professors, the newly-retired Dr. Linda Bisson, “No human pathogen can survive in wine.”
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Yeast Pitching Rates
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Submerge Those Oak Chips, Wine Yields and a Copper Problem
I actually prefer using a sock or some kind of bag rather than just having chips float loose on the surface.
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Dealing With A Copper Problem
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Some Reductive Resolutions, Using Essential Oils, and Residual Sugar
You might want to try gradually introducing a little more oxygen into your winemaking process, especially early on when wines are more resil
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Calculating Residual Sugar
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Making White Zinfandel
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Dealing With Volatile Acidity
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Testing for MLF Completion
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Red Wine Stabilization and Making White Zinfandel
Oxidation, whether microbial (metabolically), chemical (directly reacting with environmental oxygen), or enzymatic can degrade color and cau
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Red Wine Stabilization
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Evaporation Clarification
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Oak Barrel Seepage