Grape juice is in fermentation vessel — usually stainless steel, but wood or concrete also is used. Yeast decisions are made. More decisions for the wine maker. How do you manage fermentation? During ...

Just how does grape juice become wine anyway? In today's edition of Ask The Expert we examine the core process behind the transformation of grapes into the product we love so much - wine! For our ...

A Champagne without bubbles is, of course, not a Champagne, unless it’s old and has lost its sparkle due to old age. But during the first stages of its life, before the second fermentation, a ...

Vicki Denig is a wine and travel journalist who divides her time between New York and Paris. She is a certified wine specialist who has worked in the wine trade since 2013. The techniques used to ...

As a part of every wine event we do, especially when the attendees are not wine snobs, similar questions come up when folks are ‘wine curious.’ Here are some of ...