Historically, there are many winemaking practices that may or may not exactly be backed-up scientifically. Today’s article examines one of those practices/theories: that small grapes produce better red wines. The thought process behind this idea is that smaller grapes may…
While spring is in the air and we’re seeing buds breaking in northern hemisphere wine regions, winter vineyard protection is probably furthest from people’s minds at the moment. However, as with any business, it’s important to plan ahead and thus…
Though grapevines are not insect pollinated, taking care of the worlds’ pollinators, particularly bees (both farmed and wild bees) of critical importance to agriculture and our food supply (in addition to countless other ecological and environmental reasons). In fact, figures…
Anyone remotely paying attention to wine these days has probably noticed an upward tick in alcohol concentrations. While it would be easy to simply blame a changing climate on this increase, there is evidence to suggest that these increases are…