The tasting room is ready before the first guest ever walks through the door. Shelves are lined with fresh bottles, each one positioned just so. No dust. No fingerprints on the bottles. Behind the bar, glasses stand in perfect rows, polished, disappearing in the tasting room light. Tables wiped down, chairs pulled out at just […]
Wine Quality
Avoid Filtration Frenzy
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 […]
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, […]
