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Aging Wine
By Shea Comfort The French use the term élévage to refer to the aging/storage period in a wine's life. It roughly equates to our term...
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Tasting And Adjusting Reds During Aging
By Shea Comfort We need to occasionally check in on the wine‟s progress by testing and tasting every 4-6 weeks throughout the entire maturation period....
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Sur-Lie ageing
By Shea Comfort At the end of the fermentation(s) there is a large population of yeast (and possibly ML bacteria) in the wine. Once they...
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Tasting and Adjusting Whites During Ageing
By Shea Comfort Throughout the entire maturation period we need to occasionally check in on the wine’s progress by testing and tasting it. We like...
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Fining Finished White Wine
By Shea Comfort A white wine is usually fined in order to soften a harsh or astringent character, to improve clarity, and/or to create heat...
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Heat Stability in White Wine
By Shea Comfort If an unstabilized wine has an excess of protein, this protein can come out of its solubilized form, flocculate and deposit at...
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Testing For Heat Stability
By Shea Comfort Heat stability test protocol: • Fine filter a 100 mL sample of wine (a coffee filter works great for this). If the sample...
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Timing Stabilization Treatments
By Shea Comfort • If you will only be doing cold stabilization, then this can be done during the ageing of the wine at any...
