The First Winemaker’s Academy Wine Tasting

This past weekend (July 7th 2013) my wife and I hosted the very first wine tasting showcasing the wines produced during The Great Riesling Yeast Experiment (part ipart iipart iii). It was held at our house with just one other couple we invited over.

The point of this wine tasting, and the point of the experiment, was to determine if you could produce distinctly different wines by fermenting the same grape juice with different strains of yeast. I split a six gallon World Vineyard Riesling kit into two, three gallon batches and fermented them separately, one with RHST and the other with W15 yeast strains.

The spread at the first Winemaker's Academy Wine Tasting

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