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75Parts of a Grapevine
Even though grapes grow on vines, we don't cultivate them the same way as a lot of ground-running vines like melons. Instead, we shape them into something resembling an upright, fruit-bearing plant. ...
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71Green Harvesting Grapes
Green harvest involves pruning grape vines to artificially limit the yield and increase maturity, sugar level and potential alcohol for the true harvest in the fall. If your yields are too high, green harvesting will correct the yields and make for more concentrated, delicious wine.
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67Punching Down the Cap during Wine Fermentation
When grapes and grape juice are fermenting, carbon dioxide is a natural byproduct. The CO2 lifts all the seeds and skins to the top of the tank. They form a thick solid cap at the top of the tank. This...
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69Late Harvests and Sweet Wines
Grapes freeze over ready to make ice wine! Photo by Dominic Rivard (creative commons attribution share alike) While most wines are associated with a dry, almost bitter taste with very little sugar, there are...
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68Rejected New World Wine Labels
This is a compilation of rejected New World Wines. Some of the brands will have art to accompany them, and they are all in the spirit of silly animal labels, predictable cursing and famous names.
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66Languedoc Wine - Visiting Vineyards
The Languedoc Roussillon is one of the largest wine producing regions of the world. As of 2000, this one part of France produces more wine than the entire United States combined.
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54Love that Languedoc
Love the Languedoc-Roussillon, an underappreciated gem in the south of France. Every day, wonderful things are happening in the Languedoc and I am going to help you explore every nook and cranny from Montpellier to Carcassonne and all the way south to the Pyrenees.
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59Pairing food and wine from O'Vineyards
Great food and great wine have a special relationship. They can make eachother exponentially better like two ingredients that were always destined to meet. This article will go over some of the pairings I...
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87Can you afford a vineyard? Can you finance a wine-making operation?
A lot of people would love to have a vineyard. The simple bucolic life of a winemaker and the romantic draw of the Old World vines is too much to resist for many of us. But how on Earth can anybody afford...
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63Tasting Grapes for Maturity
Tasting grapes might still the best way to know if vines are ready for harvest because it's more comprehensive and more delicious than lab tests that just look at sugar content.
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