In the cellar

While in the midst of harvest (and all the craziness that comes with it), I thought I’d take a week to remind people about proper cleaning techniques, improving sanitation, and why these two [...]

By: Denise M. Gardner As the growing season turns into full swing, now is the time to get things tidied up in the winery and prepare for this vintage’s harvest season.  The cellar offers the [...]

Wine, all on its own, is a fairly good antiseptic. The tartaric acid in wines made from grapes is a relatively strong organic acid that helps keep the pH of the wines low, which in itself is a [...]

When it comes to red grapes, any winemaker wants to extract grape tannins. Not only do they contribute towards colour and texture, but also aroma. The challenge with heterogeneity is that green [...]

Yeast cell walls are also known as yeast hulls or yeast ghosts. Many sales reps sell yeast nutrients that they claim contain yeast cell walls when in fact they contain the whole yeast that has [...]