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[Home Winery - The Home Winemaking Adventures of Ian Scott] Bread And Wine: Part of the routine of stirring in the sorbate and sulfite includes lots of vigorous stirring. I cannot completely fill the Mexican carboy when I do this - I need to remove a good cup .

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[VineSugar: Wine Burps Blog] Punching down the cap on red wine: This can be as extreme as a few inches of just grapes skins drying out on the top surface of the juice. Because red wine gets so much of its structure, color and complexity from the grapes skins, it's important to keep the skins submerged in the juice.

[Suburban Wino] Suburban Wino: A Zinfandel Tasting: These days, the Zinfandel grape is often made in to wines that are extremely high in alcohol (upwards of 16%)...this has to do with the fact that the Zinfandel .In fermentation, sugar is metabolized by yeast, and the two byproducts are carbon dioxide, and magical alcohol.

[zinfandel world headquarters--Making and Drinking Wine] Mass Seration: Wrapped the syrah up tight yesterday.  The cap has not quite sunk so I should get plenty of CO2 sparging the headspace while it sits and gets extended maceration for a few weeks.  The fruit ripeness was a mix of very and not-so-very, so I think I'm going to try to go for a bit of ageability on this one.  About 4 weeks hopefully will give substantial but supple tannins.  Anyway, that's the theory.

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[The Mother Load] MotherLoad: The MomAdvice.com Blog: We decided to put this theory to the test and began buying and sampling boxed wines instead. I even had the good fortune to receive a few boxes for my review from a couple of great wine companies, which helped add perspective on the different varieties that are available for families.

[GARAGE VINO] About Freakin’ Time: Going Pro: Enough people say that you can’t make a Barolo-type Nebbiolo from California grapes that even I was starting to believe it”¦but a few producers, such as Palmina, do Nebbiolo pretty well, and I suspect the reason much of the Nebbiolo made here isn’t so fantastic is that the winemakers don’t go for it. Barolo, at least most of it, is a big wine that requires a lot of aging”¦and Nebbiolo is a think-skinned fruit.

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