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Entries for the ‘Winemaking’ Category

Make Your Own Cheap Wine Right At Home

Looking for some cheap wine? Why not make some wine right at home. You can easily do this yourself plus it’s rewarding and fun. Just think of all the cash you can save. You can make the cheap wine just for yourself or you can share it with your family and friends. Making cheap wine [...]

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Wine Making Kits Are Educational and Fun to Use

The proliferation of micro breweries and small wineries in the past 20 years has revived an interest in making wine at home. Home made wine is not a new idea, people have been making their own wine for centuries and not just from grapes. Wine has been made from all sorts of wild berries when [...]

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The ABCs of Wine Making

Viticulture, the process of growing wine grapes, has been raised from ancient art to a complex combination of science and art. Add in all the other special knowledge and skills required to produce the end product —bottled wine— and you have a Herculean (or is that Dionysian?) task.
Vintners, makers of wine, have to consider site, [...]

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Wine Making Starts with the Grape

Some agriculture regions would be almost worthless without the grape and the wine it produces. The best wine grapes grow in surprising places.
Few agricultural endeavors are as complex as wine making. And at the end of the process, one gets to enjoy a good glass. Site selection, grape variety, soil preparation, sunlight control, fermentation management, [...]

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