Winemaking Culture

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Mulled Wines: That Warm Fuzzy Feeling

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Savoring Wine: Dry Finish

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Wine Cellar Build

A reader’s basement renovation takes shape.

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Meet the Blue Bulls Wine Co.

Meet the Blue Bulls Wine Company, a group of New Jersey-based career first responders who also like to dabble in the art of winemaking. If y

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Swamp Donkey Vineyards: Growing Grapes in New England

A reader starts a vineyard in New England. “It is great to wake up in the morning, make a cup of coffee and walk out to the vineyard to chec

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Harrogate Wine Club: A Love For Wine Doesn’t Age

When we are together bottling, corking and labeling the wine, we are all eager and happy to complete the project at hand, so we can enjoy th

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Using South American Grapes for a Second Winemaking Season

Got the urge to make wine from grapes in the spring? All you need to do is get your hands on some grapes from the Southern Hemisphere.

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Pinot Noir Winemaking Techniques from Burgundy

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Home Winery Names

What’s in a name? If it’s a homewinery, it could be almost anything. Home winemakers explain their winery’s name.

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Chardonnay Winemaking Tips from Burgundy

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Wine in Cómpeta

A New World home winemaker retires to Spain and gets in touch with the Old World ways of winemaking.

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Wine & Olympics

Winemaking and the Olympic sport of skeleton racing have more in common than you might think.

Crazy Cat Winery

William Ruting of North Carolina has two hobbies: winemaking and house cats . . . 25 house cats, that is.

Metamorphosis

John Bowen incorporated pieces of Atlanta wine history in his wine cellar.

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Top 10 Winemaking Myths

As in many practices with a longstanding tradition before the scientific knowledge caught up, the field of wine and winemaking has its share

Momentum

Hope, strength and faith are the story behind Bob and Sonya Evanosky’s Momentum wine label.

Making Wine in Montana

Montana is more than just the land of big skies — you can grow grapes there, too!

A Family Tradizione

A Brattleboro, Vermont man carries on his Italian family’s home winemaking tradition.

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Grape Stomping Party

A WineMaker reader shares their story of the genesis for an annual birthday grape stomp party.

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Starting a Winemaking Club

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2016 Label Contest Winners

Here’s the winners of the 2016 WineMaker label contest.

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Design a Great Home Wine Label

You are already proud of the wine you made, but when it comes time to share or gift your wine, you want to be proud of the packaging too. Us

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Rhône Roundup

Four pro “Rhône Ranger” winemakers discuss making Rhône-style wines and decisions that work best on the small-scale.

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Pruning the Avila Adobe Vine

In January, Wes Hagen joined Los Angeles archivist Michael Holland to prune the historic 200-year-old Avila Adobe vine and explore the histo

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The Legacy of Ravenswood

Once upon a time Joel Peterson was a hobby winemaker with dreams of going pro. Today, Ravenswood is one of the most recognizable labels in t