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Winemaker
From EncycloWine
A winemaker is a person that is engaged in the occupation of making wine. They are generally employed by wineries or wine companies, where their work includes; ...
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Winemaker
A winemaker is an expert who is in charge of all the steps of wine making at a chateau (winery).
Wine press
A wine press is a device used to extract grape juice from crushed grapes during wine making.
Winemaker - A person engaged in the occupation of making wine.
Wine-press - A device, comprising two vats or receptacles, one for trodding and bruising grapes, and the other for collecting the juice.
WINEMAKER
The person in charge of winemaking in a winery. The winemaker may be in overall charge of the whole company or only the fermentation, aging and bottling of a single wine in a large winery.
Winemaker: The person in charge of winemaking in a winery. Formerly called "production manager," until "winemaker" was discovered to have lots more pizzazz with the wine buying consumer.
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Flying winemaker
A term that sprang up in the 1980s to describe a group of winemakers, chiefly Australian, that parachuted (not literally!) into Old World regions to work with local co-operatives or vignerons to improve the quality of the wines.
Flying Winemaker
Globetrotting winemaker/consultant who has no set winery but operates in many, usually employing the latest technology and practices.
Flying winemakers
Much maligned breed of mainly Australian winemakers who, in their off season, fly off to somewhere in Europe and make wine the 'new world' way out of the indigenous grapes of the region.
Winemakers are a funny lot. Some like nature to do most of the running while others aren't happy unless they are in complete control of everything. Some even get paranoid if they don't have full control of even the air around them. Let me explain.
Winemakers and winery owners are among the world's most charming and interesting people, and they often give away samples of their art for free. Why wouldn't you go?
Winemakers statewide reported small grape clusters with intense color, balance and ripe flavors.
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Winemakers love Syrah because it lends itself to many styles of wine, from the big, muscular versions that were first made popular forty years ago in Australia to the more elegant, ...
Winemakers add more to the wine. Sulphur dioxide is to wine what aspirin is to human beings: the miraculous remedy which cures all sort of diseases and avoids others.
Winemakers often wish to make a wine with a higher alcohol level, but this isn't just to 'get drunk'. It's because the higher alcohol helps keep the wine from spoiling.
Winemakers working with Barbera have a variety of ways to deal with the grape's high levels of tannins and acidity.
The winemaker's history and style
"The winemaker studied in Burgundy for a few years and that affected how he makes his wines."
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Most winemakers use one or another of the available fining agents prior to filtering and think of fining only as a clarifying agent.
Some winemakers feel that filtering reduces the quality of wine. Emile Peynaud, the preeminent University of Bordeaux enologist (enology being the science of wine) had this to say about the filtering debate: ...
Some winemakers feel that nebbiolo is even more difficult to work with than pinot noir. It can be changeable, moody and unpredictable while undergoing typical cellar and aging procedures.
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The Coppola winemaker allowed the Viognier to express itself in all its uniqueness, fermenting it in neutral stainless steel. The result is a very clean, pure expression of the varietal, sans the oily texture that sometimes carries the wine.
The winemaker’s greatest concern during bottling is to protect the wine from oxidation.
Vintner: Winemaker
Viscous: The thick appearance of wine.
Volatile: A wine spoiled by the presence of acetic acid is said to be volatile.
Vintner: Winemaker.
Viscous: Viscous is the thick appearance in wine; showing the presence of glycerol.
Garagistes
Winemakers whose production is so small it could fit into a home garage.
Garrigue
The aromas of rosemary, lemon verbena, lavender and marjoram that perfume the air of southern France, especially in the Midi region.
barrel, the winemaker's most fashionable tool. barrel ageing or barrel maturation -keeping a wine in cask between fermentation and bottling so that it stabilises naturally in the presence of small amounts of air and also absorbs some flavour and ...
Private Reserve
Winemaker's term for their top cuvee, often produced from selected vineyards.
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Rich
Full, opulent flavor, body and aroma.
Vintner: The winemaker.
Viticultural: Term for science of grape production for wine and the making of wine.
Gravity-flow: Winemakers prefer to rely on the natural force of gravity in the winemaking process to avoid the use of pumping.
Bottle-aging. The winemaker decides how long a wine will age in the bottle before it is released for sale. Most wines are made to be consumed upon release; finer wines, particularly reds, may require additional bottle aging by the consumer.
Favored by many winemakers, particularly those in Australia and Spain.
Active Dry Yeast: A dehydrated yeast culture that is the most convenient form of yeast for home winemakers to work with.
Winemaker notes, weather statistics, technical specifications; history of the winery and biographies.
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Skilled winemakers also blend juices from different vineyard or different vintages. In France most Bordeaux wines blends of different grape varieties, while most Burgundies are not.
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A Walk in the Clouds 1995. A love story set in a Mexican-American family's traditional vineyard showcasing different moments in the production of wine.
Winemakers build more complexity into this easy-to-manipulate wine using common vinification techniques: barrel fermentation, sur lie aging during which the wine is left on its natural sediment, ...
The wine produced from Chenin Blanc grapes will vary in style according to the soil, climatic and seasonal variations and the winemaker's treatment.
The modern style of Rioja rejects the crianza system, arguing that the winemaker rather than the government should decide when a wine is ready for market.
The winemaker draws up his taste buds to determine how each of the wines is coming along in the fermentation process. We started with Cabernet Franc, a minor but key constituent of their Oroppas Meritage.
This is an exasperating variety for growers, winemakers and wine drinkers alike, tantalizing at times with a teasing glimpse of richness on occasions. For the drinker willing to persevere. Dominant and noble grape variety of Central France.
Most winemakers today feel that it is nearly impossible to produce stable, fresh wine without judicious use of sulfur products at one or more stages of vinification: just after the harvest to thwart fermentation by the wrong yeasts, ...
Malolactic Fermentation - A second fermentation that can be induced by a winemaker that changes the malic acid in a wine into lactic acid.
Vinification
Californian winemakers tend to minimise the tart, crisp characteristics of European Sauvignon Blanc by ensuring that the grapes are very ripe before harvesting and then ageing them in new oak.
Most beers do not need additional nutrients but home winemakers normally add about 1 tsp to their musts or 2 tsp when making wines from items low in nutrients such as flowers.
Organic Viticulture
The approach some winemakers take when they rely less or not at all on synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals. Those that meet certain criteria may be labeled as organic.
Vigneron, -onne: Cultivator of grape vines, winemaker.
Vignoble: French term for vineyard. (Italian: vigna or vigneto; Portuguese: vinha; Spanish: viña or viñedo) ...
It works by combining with the tannins in the wine. Winemakers should be careful when using gelatine not to strip too much tannin from the wine otherwise it may then be necessary to add some tannin to restore the balance.
Use a marker to write information about the wine directly onto the label -- the name of the wine and winemaker; the types of grapes and their percentage in the blend; the location where the grapes where grown; and the year the wine was bottled.
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Residual sugar
Sugar remaining in the wine after fermentation, often referred to by winemakers as "RS".
Rich
A descriptor of wines that offer an abundance of flavor, texture or other sensory perceptions.
aroma and prickly taste characteristics in its red version and pleasant strawberry reminders when made into a "blush" wine and the grape, under the alias name Little Black Joes, was once used for that purpose by immigrant italian home winemakers in ...
Winemakers sell off their excess at low prices without compromising the price tag of their labelled wines.
The huge investment to support the most advanced technologies, the many experiments they did for the improvement and development of wine making technologies, allowed Australian winemakers as well as the wine making school of Australia, ...
Enology: The science of wine production; an enologist is a professional winemaker; an enophile is someone who enjoys wine.
Where the wine is rich and concentrated and the winemaker has made a judicious use of barrels, however, the results are a wonderful marriage of fruit and oak.
Refers to residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of "fining", to the bottom of the fermentation vessel. US winemakers use the term "mud". Imparts distinctive flavors to the wine depending on type.
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