Have you previously experienced difficult-to-filter wines? Are you sure it was the wine that was difficult? Or, could your production practices lead you into a higher prevalence of filtration problems? Let’s find out together. Components in Wine Most of us are familiar with the possibility of microorganisms in the wine. Wine harbors various yeasts and […]
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Cold Stability Explained
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think there is any way to “sell” wine diamonds to the average wine consumer. I’ve heard so many explanations for why they exist in a wine bottle: At the end of all the explanations, and sometimes we need those excuses because physical chemistry is hard, the […]
2 Tools to Elevate Wine Quality in 2025
It’s EASY to get into the routine and complacency of making the same wine year in and year out. What if I told you there’s also an easy way to take your winemaking prowess to the next level that won’t cost you a thing, other than a bit of time? Well… it’s here. It’s time. […]
A Harvest Season of… Hope?
Most of my conversations with winery owners and winemakers this year have circled around the recognition of decreased sales. If you read the daily Wine Industry Insight headlines, you are probably getting the same picture I am of doom and gloom for the industry. But the most recent issue of Wine Business Monthly (WBM, August […]
Back to Enology, Part 5: “Wine is Made in the Vineyard”
And the Argument for a Wine Quality Focus: Part 2 “Folklore has it in America that quality and production are incompatible: that you can not have both. A plant manager will usually tell you that it is either or. In his experience, if he pushes quality, he falls behind in production. If he pushes production, […]
Back to Enology, Part 4: “Wine is Made in the Vineyard”
And the Myth that Winemaking is More Art than Science: 1 of 2 Posts With the start of the 2024 harvest, I felt it prudent to address one of my least favorite phrases echoed across the wine industry, “Wine is made in the vineyard.” Taken literally, and one would think that filled wine bottles sprout […]
