Learn About Wine Production Making red wine is more or less the same process as making white wine, but with some slight variations. For one, skins are kept in contact with the juice during fermentation until the desired color of the wine is reached. Grape skins, it turns out, contain enough dye to give red [...]
Learn About White Wine Production: Part III
January 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
Ok, here we are at the last of the Learn About White Wine Production series. If you missed the other posts, we talked about crushing and pressing the grape clusters, prepping and settling the wine must, acidification and chaptalization. Then we went into primary and secondary fermentation, racking, sur lie aging, Bâttonage, and sulfur adjustment [...]
Learn About White Wine Production: Part II
January 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Let’s continue to learn about white wine production, shall we? If you missed the first part of this series you can find it here: Learn About White Wine Production: Part I On to Primary Fermentation. Once the wine must is prepped, settled, acidified and/or chaptalized, it is ready for fermentation. It is typical today for [...]
Learn About White Wine Production
January 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Learn About White Wine Production If you’ve been following along as I relate everything you need to learn about wine online, you may have noticed the recent excessive bold text lately. Simple reason, Bolding certain words seems to make me rank higher for the keyword phrase learn about wine. This is something I learned from [...]
Learn About Wine Fermentation
January 11, 2009 By 2 Comments
Organic, Biodynamic and Sustainable Wine Practices
January 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Learn About Green Viticulture Perhaps you have noticed that everyone and everything is going green. And it’s happening at the speed of commercials. We are being beaten into submission by ideas of renewable energy and sustainable crops, by hybrid cars and recycled toilet paper. By the way, recycled is not a word I want to [...]
Mealybug, You Put The Leaf Roll Into My Vine
December 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Learn About Grapevine Diseases Only someone fascinated by the music genre of the 1980s would even remotely gather what song I parodied in the title of this post, but after doing the piece on Phylloxera last time I decided to take a moment to reflect on other vine nuisances that can cripple a vineyard and [...]
The Rooting Out Of Phylloxera
December 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Learn About The Origin Of Phylloxera Remember the tale of Phylloxera and the three grapevine roots? Yes you do: Phylloxera came over and ate everything in their house but nothing satisfied her, so she ate the three grapevine roots. Then she and her parasitic horde devoured the rest of Europe’s and the world’s grapevine roots [...]
Anatomy Of A Grape Vine
December 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It Was An Act Of Terroir!
December 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Learn About Terroir Have you ever wondered if Jesus attracted such a large following because of his ability to turn water into wine? How good could the wine have been? Water doesn’t have much body. What percentage alcohol do you think it had? Do you think he had a preference of terroir in mind when [...]
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