Category: winemaking
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What is the Estate component?
Estate wines are not just every wine you pick up at a winery that has a vineyard attached. What “estate” means is the bottle of wine you are looking at, is 100% from grape to finish, from one place. There is a certain orientation to a winemaker that does all 100% estate wines.
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Learning the wine spectrum
One of the funnest parts of learning wine is learning the spectrum of your favorite variety. How different processes related to wine making can make a Zinfandel highly acidic and fruit forward, versus a bomb tannic Zinfandel that should be called dark matter on an oak shadowed lane.
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Why so much oak?
Learn about oak in wine, and how to find more fruit forward or natural wines, also often called old world style. Lighter, fresher and variety centric wine.