Malolactic fermentation is a naturally occurring process in wine. It helps to tame astringency in red wines and can offer ...

Some winemakers will destem 50% of fruit prior to fermentation, then include the clusters of the other 50%, or any percentage ...

The guidelines in question were created by the Japan Spirits & Liqueurs Makers Association (JSLMA) in an attempt to make sure ...

If you want a experience beer the way a wine-drinker does fine wine, look for bottle-conditioned beer. Here are the reasons ...

To pick a bottle of wine can often feel like roulette, especially when wine terms like “malolactic fermentation” and “carbonic maceration” are involved. However, if you understand a few ...

Attack of the bacteria All red wines undergo a second fermentation after alcoholic fermentation is complete. It is called ...

First, a regular, still wine is made by fermenting the sugar in the grapes into alcohol. Then winemakers take this base wine and add more sugar and yeast to each bottle to trigger a secondary ...

and a secondary fermentation occurs in the bottle, ending when the yeast cells deplete the supply of residual sugar. There is no dosage, or sugar addition, to kick-start the secondary fermentation, ...

Great whiskey requires careful fermentation, quality distillation and patient maturation. But before any of this, it all ...