Tag: winemaking

  • Learning the wine spectrum

    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.

  • Why so much oak?

    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.