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The Wine Making Process Simplified

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:39 +0000

There’s no doubt that the wine making process can be a bit complex. There are all kinds of decisions to make regarding varietals, yeast strain, and additives. However, the actual process of how wine is made can be understood in relatively simple terms. It’s important that you have a working knowledge of this process because everything …

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Bottle Aging Wine

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:51:44 +0000

Once bottled wine needs to be stored in optimal conditions to preserve its life and keep it tasting as wonderful as possible. The three factors affecting wine being aged in a bottle are temperature, light, and humidity (depending on your closure). Red vs White Wine Bottle Aging Red wines benefit the most from long-term aging …

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Bottling Wine

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:46:21 +0000

Bottling is the final step in the wine making process that requires any effort on your part. After this time takes care of the rest. The major considerations when bottling are what kind of bottle to use, type of closure, and to add gas or not Bottles The type of bottle you use is completely …

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Stabilizing Wine

admin — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:03:59 +0000

Closely related to the clarifying wine, is stabilizing it. Many of the same methods used for clarifying wine are also used to stabilize it, with a few additions. What is an unstable wine? By unstable we mean that the wine is susceptible to spoilage. The most common causes of spoilage are oxidation, unintentional second fermentations, …

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Clarifying Wine

admin — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:23:31 +0000

At this point your wine has aged a bit and its time to start thinking about bottling. However, before we’re ready for that we need to take care of a few things. First is clarifying the wine. No one wants to drink a cloudy or chunky-style wine. It looks bad and even if it tastes great …

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Aging Wine

admin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:02:56 +0000

After fermentation and racking comes probably the hardest part of making wine aging it. It’s one of those necessary evils of wine making. As a society we have trouble with delayed gratification and this will test your patience for sure. Why Age Wine Prior to Bottling? Aging prior to bottling is necessary for two reasons. …

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Racking off the Lees

admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:19:21 +0000

Racking is the next step, after the initial more vigorous fermentation. What is racking? Simply put racking is siphoning your wine off of the dead yeast, known as lees, into a clean container. There are two reasons to rack your wine. First it helps clarify your wine but it can also prevent off flavors from …

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Fermenting Juice into Wine

admin — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:48:07 +0000

Now that we’ve pressed the juice out of our grapes it’s time to turn it into something more fun. Namely, alcohol! To do this we need to employ the help of our new best friend Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (yeast). A Little Background on Yeast Yeasts are tiny little organisms that reproduce through cell division. There are …

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