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Top Online Reviews of How to Make Wine From Grapes

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

The question, the way to make wine from grapes is a query ask by many folks. Essentially the making of white wine has been a craft since the start of time, when grape stompers cheerfully made grape juice with their bare feet.

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Create Your Own Wine Making Recipe

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

Making your own wine making recipe can be a matter of establishing and combining a lot of your personal tastes into one concise segment of ingredients and seeing if they work with a wine. Many people fall under the stigma of creating a wine recipe that ends up taking the art of wine making recipe [...]

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Importance of Yeast in Wine Making

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

by Mark Pollack As you’re probably well aware of by now, wine comes from grapes. The juice pressed out of the berries, the must, is fermented to produce alcohol. That’s the macro view. If we zoom in, literally into the microscopic view, you might find that something less appealing is happening to your grape juice. At the [...]

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Blood Into Wine: The Life and Times of Maynard James Keenan

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

A trailer for “Blood Into Wine,” the widely anticipated documentary that shares the story of TOOL/PUSCIFER front man Maynard James Keenan and his vineyard partner Eric Glomski and their quest to bring the wine industry to Arizona’s Verde Valley is now available as a high resolution download at http://www.twinklecashcompany.com (the site also offers viewers a stream as well as a version for the iPhone ). Keenan ’s various musical entities ( Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle ) have s

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Bio Dynamic New Zealand Wines

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

The Hippy Gourmet is traveling through New Zealand and has a really nice video from Seresin Estate in Marlborough. Check it out and share with others. Posted in Viticulture, Wine, Wine Making

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Free Download Winemaker Game

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

Maria Bellaventura has just inherited an Italian winery, and is leaving her stress-filled life as a corporate lawyer behind! Grow your own grapes, and travel the world in this Strategy Adventure game. Help Maria transform her small rural winery into an international winemaking empire, and become the Winemaker Extraordinaire she is destined [...]

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Cherry Chocolate Port Limited Release

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

Mmmmmm…Cherry Chocolate Port! This full-flavoured Port style dessert wine has an exciting, complex aroma of dark chocolate mingled with notes of black cherry, ripe plum and toasted oak. On the palate, the taste is rich, sweet and lingering, leading to a long, satisfying and warm finish. The distinctive black cherry and dark chocolate adds a glorious dimension to the character of the Port. This wine is amazingly good after a few months in the bottle and will continue to improve for years. We

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Holiday Wines Fall 2009

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

NEW! COASTAL SUNSET – CALIFORNIA BLENDS RED: Coastal Sunset California Blend – Cabernet Franc, Syrah & Zinfandel Medium ruby red in colour with aromas of ripe red fruit and hints of oak and spice. This medium-bodied delicious wine has flavours of cherries and raspberries. Soft tannins contribute to the wine’s smooth, soft finish. Food matches: An ideal complement to grilled meats and fish such as beef, lamb and salmon. This wine works nicely with any pasta dish with tomato based

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Ferments Just About Over

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

The bottle fermentation’s I’ve been trialling have just about finished but unfortunately there is far too much yeast deposit. Due to the nature of the base wines I’m working with the ferments have been difficult to get started. The base wines are essentially finished still wines with alcohol levels of 13% or slightly over. The real trouble has been our old friend SO2 or Sulphur dioxide which has been added in a way that you would normally see for a still wine rather than a wine that you would

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Holiday Wines Fall 2009

Luke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:43:54 +0000

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