Dominick Profaci

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Finding the Right Closure

After dedicating as much time as we do making a batch of wine, the final step of putting a closure on the bottle can’t be overlooked. Ther

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Go Big at Home

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Devise a Home Vineyard Spray Program

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One Grape, Many Styles

There are many reasons that 10 wines made from the same grape may taste completely different, and often it is because the winemaker planned

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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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Field Blending

Blends are most often made from varietal wines prior to bottling, but field blending, where all of the varieties are harvested and fermented

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A Year in a the Life of a Wine: Part II (Grape Processing)

A look at processing grapes after harvest.

Technique

A Year in a Home Vineyard

From winter dormancy all the way through fall harvest, follow the annual lifecycle of a grapevine in this author’s New York home vineyard.

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Starting a Winemaking Club

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A Year in the Life of a Wine: Part I Starting in the vineyard

In the first installment of our new year-long series of how a homemade wine is made from homegrown grapes, we check in with the grapes at a

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Year in a Life of a Wine: Part III (Testing & Adjusting)

In the third installment of our year-long series about how homemade wine is made using home-grown grapes in Upstate New York, we check in on

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Year in a Life of a Wine Part V (Cellar Work)

In the fifth installment of our year-long series about how homemade wine is made using home-grown grapes in Upstate New York, the wines are

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Year in the Life of a Wine: Part IV (Good Fermentations)

In the fourth installment of our year-long series about how homemade wine is made using home-grown grapes in Upstate New York, it’s time t

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Year in a Life of a Wine Part VI (Bulk Aging and Bottling)

In the final installment of our year-long series, the wines are bulk aged, oaked, and bottled.