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Barbera

Barbera frequently comes in with high acidity but, with the right winemaking approach, it makes a food-friendly red for people who drink win
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Big Reds: How To Make A Blockbuster Wine

. . .lurking inside the heads of many home winemakers is the urge to make an absolute blockbuster, a jaw-dropping, mind-bending, 800-pound g
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Making Wines with Finesse

Making lighter wines with finesse is a way of approaching your winemaking, a methodology, a subtle series of tactical maneuvers.
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15 Wine Styles You Need to Make
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White Wine Skin Contact

Today’s proposed violation takes on one of the dominant conventions of modern white winemaking: no skin contact.
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Malolactic Fermentation Timing

Home Winemakers, Let’s Take a Vote: Those of you who put your wines through malolactic fermentation only after the alcoholic fermentation
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Perfecting Pinot Grigio
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Maximize Wine Aromatics

The aromatic calculus for whites differs from that for reds, and aromatics in young wines are a world apart from the aromatics of well-aged
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Viognier

Because Viognier offers so much in the way of fruit, body and aromatics, Viognier becomes a balancing act.
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Tannin Myths and Methods
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Cab-Syrah

Many great wines are designed as blends from the start, and two varieties that are perfect complements are Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.
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Cabernet Sauvignon – Syrah Wine Blends
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Aim for Age

What makes a wine age-worthy, and what can you do to create a wine worth cellaring.
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How to Make 10 Classic Wines
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Riesling Lessons of the Mosel Masters
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Cool Refreshing Riesling
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Super Syrah!

Syrah can do well in a wide variety of climates and produces wine in a number of styles, from drink-it-today fruity to structured and age-wo
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It’s Lysozyme Time
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The Joys of Blending

Blending different grape varieties to make a better finished wine is a bedrock practice in the commercial wine world — and one often overl