One of the more frustrating experiences in wine appreciation is the discovery that the wine you've been looking forward to enjoying was the victim of a random drive-by slaying perpetrated by a tainted natural cork. The musty, moldy, mushroomy, chlorine-scented damp-basement and wet-cardboard stench that cork taint imparts, even in ...

Man has been making wine for thousands of years. From the pages of the Old Testament to drawings found within the ruins of ancient Egypt , wine has been a part of life and culture. How wine is made is, therefore, one of man’s oldest uses and processes of the ...

IDEAL CONDITIONS WITH STYLE FOR PROPER WINE STORAGE... Premium wine cabinets create and maintain optimal wine storage conditions to preserve and age fine wines. Constructed from premium wood materials, wine cabinets create natural environments that are dark, cool, climate-controlled and free from outside disturbance. Premium wine cabinets have been engineered ...

By understanding the demands, costs and possible pitfalls of the custom processing environment, winemakers can find success crushing on someone else's pad. Custom Crushing, defined as paying a bonded winery other than your own (if you even own one at all) to process grapes into wine, is something that almost ...

Forty years ago this spring, David Lett went against the best advice of his UC Davis professors and put Oregon’s first Pinot Noir plants into the hilly red earth outside Dundee, just southwest of Portland. Vintage 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of Oregon’s Pinot Noir industry. And ...

An announcement for the local (SLC, UT) Basic Juice-ers: Olé! Easy Tapas & Spanish Wine A Basic Juice Wine Class 20 October, 7:00pm @ Radiance Medspa (926 E. 900 S.) Here’s a tasty little secret: There are dozens of Spanish-style tapas dishes that are easy and quick to make. Of ...

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Microclimate studies designed to track the shrinking habitat of migratory butterflies are finding new purpose in Wine Country. Stuart Weiss, an ecologist in Menlo Park with his own consulting firm, Creekside Center for Earth Observations, made the...