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Washing grapes: Franciacorta producer Ca’Del Bosco’s berry spa

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 jamiegoode 2211 Views

Grapes come into the winery from the vineyard and are crushed, pressed or fermented just as they arrive: with dust

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A quick primer on one of the major viticultural challenges worldwide. 1 Trunk diseases are a major problem worldwide. Famed

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The vast majority of rosé Champagne made by blending still red wines with white wines to make a pink base

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Juice stabulation is a newly famous winemaking technique. It was first used by winemakers in Gascony a couple of decades

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With the expansion of the UK’s wine industry, Plumpton College in Sussex has emerged as an internationally relevant centre for

June 5, 2020 jamiegoode 3278 Views flor, sherry

What is flor? It’s something that grows on the surface of wine: a film of yeasts. And it alters the

It’s Sauvignon Blanc day! Here’s a nice infographic from the Bragato Research Institute on the chemistry of Sauvignon Blanc: [Just

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Mouse taint (mousiness) is a wine fault that I’d not experienced until a few years ago. Now it seems to

There are faults you read about but you’ve never experienced. Here I experience ropiness for the first time, in a

In viticulture, a widely practiced form of leaf removal is hedging of the canopies, taking off the developing shoots at