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Dandy Dandelion Wine
The flowers bloom, the trees come into leaf and your lawn is covered with...dandelions. Here's how to make a delicate white wine from this pesky spring perennial. Ah, spring! The trees come into leaf,...
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Country Wine Yeast: Tips from the Pros
What’s the best yeast to use in your fruit wines? We ask a commercial vintner and a fruit-wine author. Dominic Rivard is a consultant fruit winemaker producing commercial wines in Asia, North America...
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Country Wine Cornucopia
Grapes are great, but in summer, berries are even better! Your hands-on guide to making fine wine from fresh fruit and flowers. Plus: step-by-step recipes. Country wines. The name evokes a cottage in a...
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Country Wine Acids: Techniques
Making adjustments to the level of acid in your country wines. Grapes want to be wine. That may be oversimplified, but the fact is that the vast majority of commercial wines — and most homemade...
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Citrus Wine
Orange juice is not just for breakfast anymore. Fermented properly, it (and other citrus fruits) make refreshing wines. It had been a while since I had visited the Sunshine State. When I returned, it...
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Chardonnay Choices, Fruit Wines: Wine Wizard
The Wiz pontificates on a potential pectin problem and has fun with Filipino fruit. I have 7 gallons (26 L) of 2009 Chardonnay made from home-grown grapes. This was my first year of production from...
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After moving to the Philippines, I was impressed with the wide variety of fruits at my disposal and the possibility of making wines. I worry, though, because many of the wine musts have high acidity...
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A Taste of the Tropics
Making wine from tropical fruits, with a little know-how, is as easy as making wine from traditional fruits and berries. Tropical fruit obviously are those native to the tropics. While the absolute...
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10 Tips for Country Winemaking
Know your fruit, and how to work with it, and you can make your non-grape wines shine. In the beginning, there was wine . . . just wine. There wasn’t “wine” (made from grapes) and “country wine” (made...
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10 Can't-Miss Country Wine Recipes
Never tried making a non-grape fruit wine? Well, you'll never have a better incentive than this -- 10 tried-and-true country wine recipes virtually guaranteed to result in great wine.If you have not...
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