Category: Wine Making
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What is ‘Pet Nat’ Wine?
You’ve probably heard the term, but what exactly is a pet nat wine? It keeps coming up around me, so I thought I would try to break down simply what pet nat wine is, and a little about my experience in the cellar with it. Pet Nat is short for the French words Pétillant Naturel…
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Chardonnay: Love it or hate it?
Grown pretty much everywhere grapes are cultivated Chardonnay often evokes an intense response of love or hate in wine drinkers. It seems that there are people who always drink or ask for a Chardonnay and those who never do. However, whether you love it or hate it, it is a key player in the wine…
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Vintage 2021: A letter from the cellar
Vintage, harvest, whatever you want to call it, 2021 wine has been made. My 10th vintage, and thats hard to believe. As always you are a little sad that it is over, proud of what you’ve done, and a tad mentally frazzled after having your focus be on one thing (and all of its moving…
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Working a Wine Harvest Abroad
Doing a wine harvest abroad is an amazing way to make some money, gain wine experience, life experience, travel, and live in another place. For me, not only has it been my key component of education for working with different grape varietals, but it has allowed me to experience living in a new country for…
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in the cellar: Chardonnay
In our cellar Chardonnay is made three ways: for still classic Chardonnay, a reserve, and the more complicated Spumante. These three wines are picked to their according days based on acidity and sugar content, measuring what will be its end alcohol level. Earliest pick is for the sparkling wine, or Spumante, made from 100% Chardonnay…
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in the cellar: Teroldego
Teroldego is a varietal that not everyone (or hardly anyone) has heard of. This makes it particularly difficult when you move to Italy to start making wine and everyone asks “what wine” and the only response you have in 2013 is “teroldego”. But I have come to love Teroldego not only for what the wine…