Wine Making at Crushpad: Including Stems in a Fermentation
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Kian Tavakoli, winemaker for Crushpad, explains when you do, and when you don’t want to think about including whole clusters in your fermentation. For some varietals, in some years, it can enhance aromas, and other desirable characteristics in a wine. In other years the stems are simply too green to include any whole clusters… Doing so would give your wine green tannins that can make a wine harsh.
Duration : 0:4:3
Wine Making at Crushpad: Fermentation Vessels
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Depending on the style of wine you want to make, and the varietal of grape you are working with, you have a few choices when it comes to fermenation vessels. And when you’re working with small batch winemaking, it is critical to make the right choice. For white wines it’s important that you ferment in the type of vessel that will help you achieve the style you want. For reds, it’s a little more straight forward. Crushpad winemaker Chris Nelson explains it all.
Duration : 0:4:1
Wine Making at Crushpad: Filtering Wine Before Bottling
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Should you filter wine during the wine making process – You decide.
Most white wines are filtered prior to bottling, and some reds are. Filtering can clarify a wine so that it sparkles in your glass, but if you filter wine too heavily it can strip away character. How do you decide what level of filtration, if any, is appropriate for your wine? Well, you ask a guy who has 25+ years wine making experience making that call. Crushpad’s Chief Winemaker, Michael Zitzlaff explains your options.
Duration : 0:3:15
Wine Making at Crushpad: Maceration
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Extended maceration is the wine making process where red wine is left in contact with the grape skins after fermentation is complete. This technique is employed when a winemaker wishes to modify the amount, and types, of tannin present when pressing the wine to barrel. It may seem counterintuitive but this extended amount of time in contact with the skins, seeds, and stems can actually soften the tannin structure of a wine that finishes fermentation with an elevated sharp tannin structure.
Duration : 0:5:7
How to Home Brew Barley Wine : Recipes for Home Brewing Barley Wine
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Learn tips and details on recipes on how to home brew your own barley wine in this free video clip on home brewing.
Duration : 0:2:15
Richard Sanford of Alma Rosa Winery & HIs Organic Wines
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Richard Sanford of Alma Rosa Winery in Santa Barbara County discusses his famous certified organic Burgundy Style Wines. Filmed by Deborah Gavito, owner of Counter Restaurant in NYC.
Duration : 0:9:55
Winery – Wine – Making Wine in Colorado
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A winemakers account of making wine in the Colorado Rockies.
Duration : 0:9:4