Video: how wine is made
Jamie Goode explains how wine is made, with clips of the process in action from around the wine world.
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New to wine
Introducing phylloxera, the aphid that changed the face of wine
The implications of the phylloxera crisis, which almost wiped out wine as we know it, are still being felt today.
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How sweet wines are made
An introduction to the sweet wine production process, looking at the different ways of making a sugar-rich, complex, balanced wine
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Cheap wines are too good these days
This may sound a strange complaint. Over recent decades, cheap wines have got better. How is that not good news?
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Is this wine good?
People often seem to lack confidence around wine. Should they be trusting their own conclusions rather than asking for expert
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Five things every wine consumer should know
Great tasters are made not born Knowledge isn’t compulsory, but it enhances enjoyment ‘Quality’ in wine is context dependent Your
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Wine struggles to speak to most people
Last night I did a zoom wine tasting for my brother and his wife, and some of his friends. They
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New to wine: grape varieties (1) Sauvignon Blanc
As we have discussed here before, there are two ways of understanding wine: the grapes and the geography. So let’s
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What’s all this talk about ‘yields’?
You don’t have to hang around wine circles too long to hear talk of ‘yields’, and generally, the sentiment is
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Bordeaux: an introduction to the world’s most famous wine region
Continuing my ‘new to wine’ series with an introduction to Bordeaux, in southwest France. We’ve discussed already that there are
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