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The Science of Food and Wine Pairing

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Higher Alcohol Off-Odors in Wine

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Managing Minerals in Winemaking

Mineral deficiencies or excesses can become sources of frustration for amateur winemakers because minerals, metals, and other ionic substanc

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Yeast Impact on Wine Aroma and Flavor

If you are of the opinion that yeast selection does not matter and that the only role of yeast is to convert sugar into ethyl alcohol (ethan

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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

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Impact of Barrel Kinetics and Dynamics on Wine

Oak wood imparts what is generally referred to as toasted-oak aromas and flavors, but more specifically, these include a varied set of volat

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Back Sweetening Wine Techniques

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Gum Arabic: Winemaking’s Secret Weapon

Gum arabic can do so many great things for your wines, from improving mouthfeel, making a thin wine taste fuller bodied, rounding out rough

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The Relationship of pH and Acid in Winemaking

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Using Outside Labs to Run Analysis Tests on your Wine

Here is some advice on when, why, or even whether you might want to take advantage of having a lab test your wine.

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Co-Inoculation with Wine Yeasts and Bacteria

Ask 5 winemakers and you may get 6 opinions about co-inoculation. But what does the science say?

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Adding Sugar to your Wine

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Oxygen Reduction in Winemaking

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Volatile Sulfur Compounds and Hydrogen Sulfide in Wine

If you have ever encountered volatile sulfur compounds in wine, of which hydrogen sulfide is the most common, you know how repulsive the sme

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Sugar and Acid Wine Adjustments

We’d all love to make wine from the perfect grapes picked with ideal sugars, acidity, and pH. Unfortunately, often due to reasons beyond our

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Home Wine Lab Testing: Tips from the Pros

Laboratory equipment for winemakers can be fiscally daunting, especially for beginning winemakers. That doesn’t mean that vital testing sh

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Impact of Oxygen on Winemaking

Oxygen’s presence or absence at the various stages of winemaking can have extraordinarily important and lasting effects on what our wines

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Monitoring & Adjusting pH

pH greatly affects the taste of wine as well as microbial stability. It can make the difference between drinking the wine or pouring it down

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Enzymes for Hobbyists

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Mastering Wine Acid Balance

Sometimes the acidity of your grapes, juice, or wine will need to be adjusted. Learn some of the finer details surrounding how, and when, to

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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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In the Wine Lab

As a home winemaker, testing your wine for certain things like Brix and pH are critical, while other tests are optional. Get to know the equ

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Tannin Chemistry

Soft, silky, velvety, youthful, puckery, aggressive, harsh, bitter, astringent: These are all adjectives used in winespeak to describe the m

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Oak Barrel Chemistry

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The Home Wine Laboratory

Wine analysis can be expensive, but it is worth it. It helps you to understand what you are doing during production, aids in the diagnosis o