Filtration is usually a valuable step for stabilising and clarifying wines during the final stages of the winemaking process. All wines gain some amount of clarification through settling and racking. In addition, the majority of wines are filtered. However,...

While the grapes are the basis for a great wine, the juice from them cannot turn into the ideal wine without assistance from certain laboratory chemicals. Chemicals assist with various stages of winemaking, including fermentation. For this reason, you...

A flavourful wine starts in the vineyard since it takes quality grapes to create one. For this reason, the vineyard owners must carefully nurture the grape vines from planting to harvest time to ensure that the fruit on them...

When making wine, you must proceed through all the stages in the proper fashion to reap favourable results. Disgorging is one of these stages of which we speak and it removes the sediment that accumulates during the riddling process....

The act of winemaking requires in-depth knowledge of grapes, processing methods and proper fermentation times. Also, you need to understand how yeasts and other additives affect your batch. They can bring about favourable results in the right amounts or...

While aging in oak barrels has long been the tradition as part of winemaking, there are alternatives to them that reap favourable results. Different types of barrels are slowly gaining in popularity along with the addition of oak chips...