Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
Posted in measurement & testing on Apr 27th, 2009
Best of Twitter! You are 90 percent more likely to buy red wine if you buy onions & more the wine industry has learned about you: http://bit.ly/brPFFg Follow Washington Winemaker on Twitter. I’ve mentioned that I’m getting inconsistent results with my CO2 acid testing apparatus, and I’ve been trying to figure out why. I noticed [...]
Posted in commercial wine on Apr 13th, 2009
I had high hopes for this wine ($9 at Costco), because the Kirkland brand is usually pretty good and I liked the Kirkland Sauvignon Blanc. So how did it stack up? Running the numbers When I make wine at home, I measure the specific gravity, titratable acidity, and pH. I thought I’d start doing that [...]
Posted in tasting on Apr 5th, 2009
Can a good label make your wine taste better? Not in the sense that it alters the chemistry involved in your senses of taste and smell, but your enjoyment of wine is more than chemistry. A California Institute of Technology experiment showed that expectations and psychology have a big impact on how much people enjoy [...]