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Alison Crowe
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Vinifera in Florida?
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Post-Fermentation Acid Adjustments
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Finding Ideal SO2 Levels
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What Kind of Water to Use in My Wine Kit
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Making Muscat, Battling VA, Finding Ideal SO2 Levels
No matter which strain you use, be sure that you read up on all the specifications from the manufacturer around ideal performance conditions
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Color Problems In My Pinot Noir
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Transporting Wine
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Harvesting Decision Making
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Fun With Filtration, When To Harvest, and Transporting Wine
. . . a lot of sediment we find in wines actually forms after the wine is bottled, and is nothing that filtration can control.
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Growing Grapes In Albuquerque
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Sluggish Fermentation Woes
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Hangover Myths Revealed
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Brett in the Winery, Hangover Myths, and Grapes In Albuquerque
Brettanomyces is often an ambient microbe in the air we breathe, but that’s no reason to go inviting concentrated and healthy sto
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Cooking With Wine
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Using Tartaric Acid
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Stuck Fermentations, Using Tartaric Acid, and Cooking With Wine
I find that when sugar is that low, the process of re-starting actually lowers the overall quality and you’re better off bottling slightly
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Hybrid Grapes Winemaking
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Over-Sulfited Wine
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Free SO2 Levels
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“Fruit Floaties”, Sweetening Wine, Free SO2 levels
Because sulfur dioxide is so easily-oxidizable, hydrogen peroxide naturally ‘finds’ the easily-oxidized SO2 and the two hopef
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Stuck Fermentations
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Pomace Compost
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Alternative Sweeteners, Pomace Compost, and Stuck Fermentations
If you add some kind of sweetener that is fermentable (table sugar, grape concentrate, maple syrup, honey, etc.) you risk an uncontrolled re
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Ring Around The Carboy
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Empty Airlocks, Calculating ABV, and Transplanting Vines
Most top-scoring red wines made in the U.S. are bottled after 18–24 months in barrel.