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Complexity in wine separates the great wine from the rest. Creating a complex wine, however, requires the use of advanced wine making techniques.
Here are three techniques you can start applying to your own wine making to take it to the next level. It doesn’t matter if you’re making wine from a kit, frozen must, or fresh fruit. Continue reading “Advanced Wine Making Techniques”
Great winemakers have a tremendous depth of wine knowledge in addition to their understanding of the winemaking process. The more you know about finished wines the wines you make will be.
Why? It’s nearly impossible for a winemaker to make a subtle and complex wine if he/she can’t describe or even pick out subtleties in what they drink. Once you know how to pick out the nuances of a great wine you can start honing your winemaking skills to draw out those characteristics out in your own wines. Continue reading “Studying Wine to Become a Better Winemaker”
Degassing is the process of removing suspended carbon dioxide from your wine. Usually you’ll do this when you add your fining agent about two weeks prior to bottling.
Wine that’s not properly degassed will be carbonated. If you don’t get the carbon dioxide out of your wine before you bottle it’ll still be there when you open it later. Continue reading “How to Use a Degassing Tool”
With all the sanitizing, racking, and testing you’ll be doing it’s easy to see how wine making can get messy. Without the proper area you’ll definitely be leaving your mark. Let’s look at what sort of area will work best for your wine making operation.
The most important factors are: Continue reading “Where to Set Up Your Wine Making Operation”
It’s inexpensive, easy to use, and easy to neglect. The cost of neglecting it, however, is all the wine your making. So what is this little savior of wine?
The airlock.
Continue reading “The Most Neglected Piece of Winemaking Equipment”