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Update on the wine produced last fall where I did ferment all naturally, even the grapes bought from Italy from unknown vineyards. So, we are now in February and in the mean time I was gone for most of January to the Cape Winelands in South Africa. Back home in The Netherlands, Europe, I found...

So, last year I made wine using commercial yeast. This coming September/October I am about to receive about 2400 kg of grapes and this time I would like to do the fermentation with natural yeast fermentation, but am feeling uncertain on how that is supposed to work. My winemaker friends...

Hi, I just bottled my first bottle of wine ever in my life this week. I must tell you all. I could not sleep of excitement the night leading up to our bottling day. The first wine is a rosé wine made from a hybrid grape variety called Regent. Let me share some pictures. We used the Enolmatic...

I have been asked by a Dutch wine association to test one of their wines for an article in their upcoming magazine edition. Seemingly, I have an analyser that can measure things like malic-, lactic, acetic- or total acid levels, but they also want to know specifically the tartaric acidity level...

Hi: I have been searching for information on the potential risks of brewing beer (or just fermenting it in a fermenter) in the same cellar as where the wine is made. I find some information saying that it is no problem, but others suggest it might not go well together in the same cellar. Would...

I have a rosé in the stainless steel tank that finished its first fermentation a couple of days ago. The SG is - 996 and I do not notice any fermentation activity anymore. I moved the sliding lid down to sit less than an inch above the service of the wine, took out the cooling hoses. Also, the...

Hi there. I have just started up my amateur winery in the basement. I did some home study and then bought about 1000 pounds of grapes from a local winery that produces the grapes but discontinued the winemaking part. We picked the grapes ourselves, which were of three different varieties...