Some changes require big investment. But many wine quality improvements come with little adjustments to daily cellar practices. These are three places in the cellar that I consider fundamental to developing quality wine. Without these fundamentals, getting stuck in winemaking routines becomes the norm. Old habits die hard, as they say, and without persistence to […]
Yeast Strain Selection vs. Yeast Nutrition
As a consulting winemaker, I have made the general observation that winemakers tend to take a lot of time in selecting yeast strains to ferment grapes. Many spend significant time deciding if the marketing terms related to wine descriptors they expect to arise by the end of primary fermentation are what they desire in their […]
Two Virtual Wine Making Consulting Services that can Benefit You Now!
Denise Gardner Winemaking is designed in part to provide virtual wine making consulting options for wineries of all sizes. Part of DG Winemaking’s mission is to move wineries into a realm of wine quality improvements when “good enough wine is no longer good enough.” I work with clients that want to address their quality shortcomings […]
Four Virtual Winemaking Lessons You’ll Want Before Harvest!
For many of us, harvest is at the edge of beginning. As I am a firm believer in preparing for a successful harvest, I want to review a few tools available through dgwinemaking.com as à la carte purchases. Details for purchasing these lessons is at the bottom of this post. Creative Wine Styles for Hybrid […]
COVID-19 Mitigation: Harvest Preparation
As COVID-19 continues to affect many regions across the U.S., winery operations may want to tackle planning for extra precautions to minimize the infection and spread of the virus within the production space. As we discussed previously, planning before infection becomes imminent is advantageous to employers. Harvest operations have the primary advantage of typically taking […]
Free Winery Information System (WIS) Webinar Registration Open
Have you been questioning how to transfer your hard record keeping files into something more digital? Are you at a point where digitizing your systems may be more efficient? Have you felt that your operation is too small to get into the digital age? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will […]
