El Dorado Home Wine Making Website - Home Wine Making Information and Wine Recipes
Home Wine Making
- 41. Wine Glossary
- (Uncategorised)
- ... for long periods in oak barrels adds oak-flavor and makes the wine more complex. Aging of wines (either red or white) in bottles develops a pleasing taste and odor characteristic called "bottle bouquet". ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 42. Port Wine Instructions
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... this by building an oak platform with stainless steel screws and weighing it down with glass bottles to keep the cap down. The oak platform should be able to fit inside your fermentation container. To ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 43. Wine Making Equipment
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- Wine Making Equipment There are many kinds of grapes to choose from, depending on where you live. Vitis vinifera is the classic choice for flavor, varietal character and historic authenticity. This famous ...
- Created on 16 September 2014
- 44. Agrimony Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... off sediment into clean glass secondary at monthly intervals. Reattach airlock. 7. Bottle when the wine has been six months in the making, adding the lactose solution. NOTE: Use the ...
- Created on 13 September 2014
- 45. FAQ Tech Tips
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... reactions will occur, but these reactions are highly unlikely to affect the bulk wine. Diagnosing and Removing Reduced Sulphide Taints : Never bottle a wine without first doing a copper trial on the ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 46. Acid/pH Adjustments
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... at least three months, or a chalk haze or crystalline deposit could occur in the bottle. I prefer to use calcium carbonate before filtering. Calcium carbonate is not the preferred method of acid reduction ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 47. Acid Control in Winemaking
- (Uncategorised)
- ... accurate job. They provide a syringe, a vial of "indicator solution" and a bottle of sodium hydroxide solution, usually 0.2 N. in strength. You provide a glass container to do the test in. A laboratory ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 48. Growing Grapes in El Dorado County
- (Award Winning Grapes)
- ... the specific vineyard in which all the grapes were grown. The term "Estate Bottled" on a wine label carries a similar connotation in that all the grapes in that particular bottling were produced by, or ...
- Created on 24 June 2014
- 49. Home Page
- (Award Winning Grapes)
- ... as possible. Open a bottle of wine, pour yourself a glass and spend some time going through the information I have assembled here. Also, if you are needing ideas for your own wine label, check the photo ...
- Created on 01 August 2013