Wine Making

Wine making is an art that is enjoyable as well as educational. The basics are not difficult to learn. Recipes and educational resources are readily available to help beginners. Advanced techniques can be mastered with study and experience. Education on the fermentation process and factors that affect its success is important. Kits are available that have juice extracts or you can make your own wine from fresh grapes. http://www.winemakermag.com/new/fresh

On this site, we have wine making blogs, videos, questions and answers, news, and wine making links that you can use to learn more about this art, to locate suppliers and to find recipes and fellow wine making hobbyists. The videos include instructions on making fruit wines and grape wines, and you will find technical tips to help make the best possible product. You may also want to visit the Mahalo page on How to Make Wine for essential information and some recipes. Below, information on a certificate course in winemaking is provided if you want to pursue formal education in oenology and viticulture. http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/winemaking/certificate/winemaking_for_online_learners/

This is the order of the first eight videos in that section:

1. Wine Making, Part 1 - from a kit, sanitation and primary fermentation
2. Wine Making, Part 2 - Racking the Wine
3. An Ingenious Way to Degas Wine
4. Homemade Fruit Wine
5. How to Deal with Airlock Blowouts
6. Wine Making Fermentation Temperature
7. Wine Bottling Time
8. Making Muscadine Wine - great video!!

Chassagne- Montrachet Winery of Vincent Dancer in France - Extensive collection from the Montrachet Grand Cru - Beautiful photos !!

Home Winemaking Photos of Dr. Richard Gardner

There are a variety of methods of approaching wine making professionally. In a larger sense, there are the "Old World" and the "New World" philosophies. Old World methods are usually associated with the traditional wine making practices of Europe, the middle East and North Africa, while New World Wines are associated with wine making process of North and South America. Correspondingly, old World methodologies, usually rely on the natural yeast fermentation processes and the quality of grapes, while New World approaches are more technical in their approaches for producing quality wines. Old World Wines also are more earthy and drier and depend on structure and other factors to make their wine style. http://www.rackwine.com/OldNewWorldWine/

The University of California, Davis Extension Service offers an online course for wine making. Upon completion of the course, you are awarded a certificate. The name of the course is "Winemaking for Online Learners Certificate Program." The course consists of five 10-week courses. The five course names, beginning with the first and ending with the last are: Introduction to Winemaking, Introduction to Wine Production. Quality Control and Analysis in Winemaking, Wine Stability and Sensory Analysis, and Viticulture for Winemakers. There currently is a 12-month waiting list, but if you are serious about learning, this is a thorough course in winemaking. http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/winemaking/certificate/winemaking_for_online_learners/

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