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The Effects of Oxygen Exposure on Red Wine
By Shea Comfort The Effects of Oxygen Exposure Oxygen makes up about 20% of the air we breath and is found everywhere in...
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Oxidation-Reduction Potential: How It Effects The Chemical Matrix of Wine
By Shea Comfort Before we get into the technical aspects of adding oxygen to the must, now is a good time to review the other...
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A comparison of French, Hungarian, and American Oaks
he following are results from research done at Stavin and should only be used to give an approximation of what each of these three varieties...
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Inert Gas and Winemaking
By Shea Comfort The Importance of Inert Gas During aging, if a wine is not protected from both microbial spoilage and oxygen at...
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First Transfer of Red Wine
By Shea Comfort Transfer clean wine in preparation for Malolactic Fermentation Once the alcoholic fermentation is over it is time to begin the Malolactic...
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Racking Post MLF
By Shea Comfort Having finished MLF, the wine should be removed from any sediment at the bottom of the vessel by racking. Whenever you need...
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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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Additional Transfers/Controlled Oxygen Exposure
By Shea Comfort Depending on how much sediment is in the wine, it may need to be racked a few times during its maturation. In...
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Red Pre-Bottling Checklist
By Shea Comfort If the wine tastes fine and you are happy with the level of clarity, an SO2 test is all that's left. Once...
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Wine Filtering and Fining
By Shea Comfort Both fining and filtration are treatments that can be done to further polish or finish the wine just before bottling. Fining works...
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Bottling Your Wine
By Shea Comfort 12/05/2008 Once we have gone through the pre-bottling check-list and the wine has undergone any needed treatments, we are ready to...
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Dilution and Chapitalization of Musts
By Shea Comfort -Use filtered water, not straight from the tap if you can avoid it. Chemicals found in tap water (ex: chlorine) could possibly...
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About Acidity and Adding Acid to Must/Wine
By Shea Comfort Acidity in wine grapes is the product of several organic acids naturally found in the fruit. Tartaric and Malic make up the...
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Complete Must Adjustment Example: ºBrix, pH, TA
By Shea For this example, let's put everything together by taking a look at how we might deal with 25 gallons of Syrah must...
