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Mingle With Food And Wine: March 2010

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Back To The Basics. Mingle With Food And Wine. While doing some research on wine and the sulfur smell in them ( Virgina Tech website. On wine making) I found out about a wine blending class to learn to make Meritage wines at a Virginia winery. The winery is one of two hosting this course from Virginia Tech and while looking at the other events I found information about the class on April 18th. (so far not signed up to take either class, but probably will). In order to put the Mertitage label on the bottle.

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If we’re winter pruning, then Spring must be close | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. If we’re winter pruning, then Spring must be close. March 20, 2014. Vines before pruning – a bit of a tangled mess. During the growing season, we’ll drop some fruit from the vine, again to direct energy toward the remaining clusters in the hopes of producing more concentrated and higher-quality grapes. But the first decisions we make that will determine the quantity and quality of the season’s fruit are those made in the d...

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Books | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine. Journalist George Tabor’s book about the competition that proved California wines were as good and better as those of France. The 1976 contest was the beginning of the globalization of wine that gave rise to great wineries in Chile, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, among other countries. Read Project Sunlight Review.

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2015 February | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. Archive for February, 2015. The Big Chill — We Felt it through the Grapevine. It takes years of hard work to establish a vineyard, but only one bad night to lose it. Oh, yes, I am truly freezing. So, the outlook for early Friday morning looked very different on Wednesday than it had only a few days earlier. Negative five degrees had been scary enough. But I was really surprised to see forecasts that warned of temperatu...Now, ...

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Honoring Galileo | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. Galileo was a man of science, so I don’t know if he would feel honored by a page devoted to science. But I did warn early on that this site would occassionally stray into other realms, including speculative fiction. So I’ll proceed in the hope that if I am not actually honoring his memory, as the title of this page suggests, I am at least not dishonoring him. The Fall of Hyperion. And The Rise of Endymion. Preparing for the Ha...

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Where Did the Grapes Go? | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. Where Did the Grapes Go? September 9, 2013. Five days ago, at the end of the holiday weekend, I was thrilled with the progress of our vines. We hadn’t allowed a lot of grapes to accumulate, given that the vines were only in their second year, but we had left a few clusters, and they looked beautiful. Moreover, they tasted amazingly sweet. You can see that most of the grapes have been picked off this cluster. So, a few lessons.

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Preparing for the Harvest – Part II | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. Preparing for the Harvest – Part II. September 12, 2014. The bladder press is a lovely piece of equipment. below the juice channel, you can see the hook-up for the garden hose. Crusher-destemmr on its stand. I built the wood dolly with plywood, 2×4 lumber and 3 inch wheels. After I unpackaged the crusher-destemmer, admired it, let it sit on the shipping pallet for a couple of weeks (it’s really heavy), I came face to fac...

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Preparing to Harvest Grapes | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. Preparing for the Harvest. September 9, 2014. The harvest is here, or at least it’s close. Our Viognier grapes should be ready to harvest next week. I had thought a week ago we’d would have harvested yesterday), and the Merlot and Cab Franc won’t be far behind. My Viognier at the end of August, partially obscured by bird netting, is looking fabulous. I still remember a class at King Family Vineyards. Invited us to taste wines ...

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The Big Chill — We Felt it through the Grapevine | Project Sunlight - A Winemaker's Education

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Project Sunlight – A Winemaker's Education. Wine, Winemaking, and Viticulture. The Big Chill — We Felt it through the Grapevine. February 27, 2015. It takes years of hard work to establish a vineyard, but only one bad night to lose it. A week ago Wednesday, I thought that night was upon us. With subzero temperatures in the forecast, it seemed as though we might have been on the verge of losing our little hobby vineyard, which has been the focus of so much of our time and energy for the past four years.