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Showing posts with label Wine balance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wine balance. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Improving wine balance with varietal blending

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Wine blends are constructs of two or more varietals, and/or micro/macro-climates, and or clones, and/or juice types (press or free-run) that...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Wine balance: Napa's Phoenix

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In the early 1970s, Napa wines exhibited characteristics that were close enough to wines from France that a group of leading French experts ...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Diurnal temperature shifts and wine quality

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Diurnal temperature range (DTR) refers to the difference between the highest daytime temperature and the lowest nighttime temperature. S...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Available mechanisms for ameliorating tannin-associated wine imbalance

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In a previous post on tannins and wine balance , I noted that too much tannin results in a wine that is heavy and rough on the palate and la...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

The role of tannins in wine balance

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Wine quality , as perceived by the consumer, has a number of elements, an important one of which is wine balance .  I have defined wine bala...
Monday, February 27, 2012

The role of alcohol in wine balance

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Wine balance is one of the important measures of wine quality and attainment of said balance, according to Dr. Bruce Zoecklein (Virginia ...
Friday, February 24, 2012

The role of acidity in wine balance

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Now that I have provided a contextual framework for wine balance , I can return to the promised discussion of acidity, one of its constitue...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Wine balance as a quality measure

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According to Dr. Bruce Zoecklein, Head of the Enology/Wine Chemistry Group at Virginia Tech, wine can be broken down into the three sensory ...