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Video: how wine is made

February 28, 2021 jamiegoode 3305 Views

Jamie Goode explains how wine is made, with clips of the process in action from around the wine world.

The implications of the phylloxera crisis, which almost wiped out wine as we know it, are still being felt today.

An introduction to the sweet wine production process, looking at the different ways of making a sugar-rich, complex, balanced wine

December 8, 2020 jamiegoode 4797 Views

This may sound a strange complaint. Over recent decades, cheap wines have got better. How is that not good news?

People often seem to lack confidence around wine. Should they be trusting their own conclusions rather than asking for expert

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 6755 Views

Great tasters are made not born Knowledge isn’t compulsory, but it enhances enjoyment ‘Quality’ in wine is context dependent Your

May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 jamiegoode 8564 Views

Last night I did a zoom wine tasting for my brother and his wife, and some of his friends. They

As we have discussed here before, there are two ways of understanding wine: the grapes and the geography. So let’s

You don’t have to hang around wine circles too long to hear talk of ‘yields’, and generally, the sentiment is

November 15, 2019 jamiegoode 4997 Views

Continuing my ‘new to wine’ series with an introduction to Bordeaux, in southwest France. We’ve discussed already that there are