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"I want to make wine and find answers. If I know how to make wine, then I know what is in father and mother's wine. By reliving their actions, maybe we'll understand what kind of people they were."
"We want to make really good wine... slowly gaining attention, slowly growing."
"The Judgment of Paris gave American wine some street cred on the world stage."
"Making wine at home is no more or less safe than cooking at home. You can poison somebody just as easily by cooking as you can by winemaking."
"You can actually make a wine tailored to their specific taste."
"I make wine and I've been doing oil painting."
"His vineyards created red wine and that's what he took with him to the afterlife."
"Ice wine is made from frozen grapes."
"Ice wine is very expensive and we call it Liquid Gold."
"James Alan de Rothschild, unlike his father, has gone into viniculture, deep into winemaking."
"Winemaking is always a personal view, a personal expression of terroir. It's diversity of soil, of exposure of microclimates."
"Red wine made with red grapes has most red grapes have clear juice. If I wanted to make a white wine from Merlot, I would throw it in the press and press that juice away from the Skins."
"I never thought I would see these beautiful big wine vats with a petrol pump attached to it. It was so surreal to see."
"Basically the wines are tread until fermentation starts."
"For centuries the Georgian monks have made wine the same way, producing Reds, whites, and even ambers."
"And at the end of the day, you're able to enjoy a glass of wine that you've made with pride by yourself in your own home. Why not give it a try if you haven't done it yet?"
"If you could wait an extra year and let it sit for two years, even better, two year homemade wine. Fantastic."
"In modern times brewers and winemakers have discovered yeast that allow them to produce very specific alcohol contents, ranging from 5 to 20 %."
"A lot of people used to do that first is to make their own wine."
"The idea of making wine at home is as old as the idea of Home itself."
"I make the wine I enjoy it. That's it."
"And here's the result. Let's give it a test. This is good. Well worth the effort, a couple of months of time, some patience, a little bit of money, but really a great quality wine for less than what you pay for the same quality wine in the store."
"Can you make wine from table grapes? The unequivocal answer is yes."
"Wine was always transformative. My grandfather was making it in a basement in Brooklyn and serving it to us when we were 10 years old."
"Here at Tolosa Winery, our beautiful, serene surroundings pair with technological advancements to produce timeless, profound wines of diverse and distinctive character."
"It's as if just in the history of wine growing and winemaking here, and we are just perpetuating that with new tools and with a vision of making world-class wine."
"You're especially going to want to cold stabilize a white wine or a fruity fruit wine because you're usually going to serve those cold."
"I'm going to use some K1V-1116 from Lavin... this one has a tendency to leave a lot of the brighter aromatics inside the wash rather than cooking them out."
"This is a clay vessel which we use for our wine making in Georgia."
"The difference between European system of winemaking and Georgian system of winemaking is using the leftovers of the grapes."
"The oldest winery in the Americas was established in Mexico in 1597."
"Surrounded by skyscrapers, they're growing grapes and making small batches of wine in a truly inner-city environment."
"A good wine, the grapes need to suffer, so having to scrap a hard living on those terraces makes for good wine."
"She kind of comes back in the form of vines and grapes and she gets to travel the world now."
"We're not chasing the market, we're making wines that we love to make."
"The art of wine making is blending."
"There's nothing cooler than watching somebody drink a glass of wine or a blend that I put together and just watch them close their eyes and smile."
"Mexico is producing wines that rival anything from California."
"Georgia is the oldest winemaking country in the world, with the tradition dating back a thousand years."
"I always had the desire to have my own winery, my own business."
"Look at all these fresh mangoes. I can't wait to make this wine."
"These non-hydrogen sulfide yeasts are a lifesaver, they're a game changer for making white wine."
"I mean traditionally you age Redwine in an oak barrel, which is like the salt and pepper of the wine."
"This is here for the tannic aspect, that mouth puckering richness in the mouth feeling."
"Toasting mellows the tannins in the wood as well as changes the flavors the barrel might impart from raw wood to more spicy vanilla notes."
"Carver sparkling wines are produced using the traditional method."
"Grapes will be gently pressed immediately in the winery with little or no skin contact."
"We made pineapple wine from fruit in 25 days."
"Understanding the environmental influences and grape growing options in the vineyard and how these will impact the style and quality of the wine."
"Riper berries are likely to produce stone fruit and tropical fruit aromas in white wine."
"Lees aging is to leave the dead yeast cells in the wine to create creamier textures and savory finishes."
"Fermentation is probably the crucial moment of winemaking."
"When fishing gives you grapes, make wine, that's the old saying."
"In order to do winemaking, we need grapes."
"Enter Cricova Underground City, a place that celebrates Moldovan winemaking like no other."
"We're in the middle of Sicily, visiting a winemaker named Fabio Sireci of Feudo Montoni in Agrigento."
"Bruno Giacosa is a legendary winemaker whose impressive career spanned from 1961 until his unfortunate passing in 2018."
"I'd like to have my own vineyard, make my own wine. The Imp's Delight."
"Some of the best winemaking conditions on earth are found in Australia."
"This is what we in the UK would call a demijohn, and it's used for fermenting your own wine."
"We at the winery prefer to wait much longer to get the best taste and the finest bubbles in the crema."
"In the prison of Gorgona, there is a small vineyard, and the 100 inmates held there are trained in wine making."
"The vine must first absorb water through its roots before it produces the fruit that is turned into wine."
"So what's the process again? That we harvest the grapes, then we press the grapes, and after that fermentation, distillation, and in the end is this magic, gazor."
"I will become the world's first female graduate enologist, a specialist in the science of making wine."
"Wine is made in the vineyard, not in the winery."
"The number one factor in the rise of this region is simply the sharing of knowledge, resources, and skills between the winemakers."
"You are a winemaker looking to produce a red Rioja that is deep colored, fine, powerful, and with high tannins with a great ability to age."
"Man, that's going to be a great batch of plum wine."
"There is a lot more science behind winemaking than we could possibly fit in several videos."
"In a red wine, our goal is to have a pH of anywhere from 3.2 to like 3.65."
"Welcome back to the channel, today we're going to finish up this series of wine making."
"That's the best part of making wine, you make it the way you like it."
"The making of Petri wine is a family affair."
"For generations, the Petri family has handed down the fine art of turning luscious, sun-ripened grapes into fragrant, delicious wine."
"You can't go wrong with a Petri wine because Petri took time to bring you good wine."
"I used to love making that wine, I'd make a lot of that wine, give it away most of it."
"La Rioja Alta traces its roots way back to the 1890s."
"It racks the wines by candlelight and matures those wines for an extended period of time before they're released."
"One way or another, a fermentation will start; that juice is gonna try to turn into wine."
"Some really incredible wines can be made by natural fermentation."
"Good fleshy purpley skins give nice deep purple color, full-bodied and often smooth tannins."
"Yeast autolysis... creates secondary flavors like bread, cream, and dough, but also adds texture, body."
"Really is a real culmination and nucleus of quality winemaking here in the Rheingau."
"Riesling Spätlese are made in the same way as a Kabinett, but are riper, more concentrated with more body, alcohol, and potential sweetness because they are picked later."
"It is the best wine I have ever made."
"In the heart of South Australia, generations of winemaking expertise have combined to create something special."
"Blending, assemblage between years is very important here for consistency, for balance."
"Lee's aging... adds texture, mitigates the high acidities a little bit, but also adds aromas and flavors like biscuit, bread, brioche, and toast."
"Anyone that ever says that you can't make a clear strawberry jam wine because of the pectin, they're wrong, wrong, wrong, any wrong."
"This is at 11.7 ABV already; that's really impressive."
"This is about as clear as you could ask for for a wine."
"This is only 10 weeks old, so being that it's made with some odd ingredients like jam, I'm going to say that with some age, this would probably be really, really good."
"Domaine J.L. Chave has been producing outstanding wine in the Northern Rhône region of France for more than 500 years."
"Some winemakers prefer to promote malolactic conversion at the same time as alcoholic fermentation because it can increase the fruity characteristics."
"Malolactic conversion can change the style of the wine, it can change the texture."
"Côte-Rôtie means 'roasted slope'."
"Raisins are not nutrients? Well today, they're going to be the main ingredient in a wine."
"It's a very old way of making wine, people have been doing it this way for centuries."
"It's a hidden gem, Texas winemaking a mark in the marketplace."
"The Ananur T150 VV is an essential tool in the viticulture and wine-making industries."
"We've raised that 15 gravity points by just adding two pounds of sugar to it that quick."
"We've also got the specific gravity 1.065, so we know that we're going to have about a nine percent alcohol by volume wine if all goes well."
"So we take all three of those data points and put them together, and that tells us now that in this particular case, my anticipation at the very end is I'm going to have a really nice sweet wine about a 9%."
"That is my friends one fast ferment complete with the 100% grape juice that we're going to turn into our grape wine."
"Wine making is a process that could take years."
"You can't drink grapes. For grapes to become fine wine, they gotta be crushed."
"Grape skins add tannins which adds body, a little bit of an astringency to that mead."
"To make wine successfully, you need a little bit of chemistry, a little bit of geography, and I think also some poetry in your soul."
"The best part about being a winemaker is the end user."
"We put all of our heart and soul and personality into these bottles."
"California is the only University in the world to give a degree with a specialization in winemaking."
"It allows the sediment to drop to the bottom and you don't get sediment in your bottles."
"Baya is a young girl and she does incredible Imereti wines which are indigenous grapes from the region."
"So I can see why the monks started going up to 37 acres, if you can produce a wine like that... you'd keep going, wouldn't you?"
"Traditional Georgian winemaking is different; it's 100% natural, same as it was 8,000 years ago."
"Winemakers may choose to keep the wine in contact with the dead yeast, what we call 'lees,' to add more complexity and texture."
"Throw some ingredients together, let it ferment, add some packages when the instructions tell you to, and a month later, you've got this beautiful wine."
"Go out and get yourself a wine kit, make some wine, Cheers!"
"The art of winemaking is the art of capturing the essence of a moment."
"From harvest to crush to bottle, Theodora Lee pours heart and soul into making her own award-winning wines."
"The combination of the particular grapes involved, all of them high acid whites, along with fortification... had a salubrious effect on the wines."
"This is a clear heart Redwood wine vat... it's about a 100 plus years old."
"I used this for home wine making for probably 30 year, 35 years maybe."
"Our goal here is simple: to make the best wines in Argentina and beyond."
"Besides cooking amazing food, they produce their own wine here, so it's kind of like a small winery."
"Terroir is a lot more than just the soils, inclusive of the bedrocks, the rocks, the minerals, the organic matter, the local environment, the climate, and including the human influence."
"We are winemakers in Portugal and over the course of six years we are competing to become the best winemaker."
"The real secret to their success is botrytis cinerea, sometimes called Noble Rot."
"Because the wine remembers, we use only rare European oak to gentle and mature our Chardonnay."
"Every step we take, we take with care, because the wine remembers."
"If you're not producing wine, you're not winning, because that's what we're doing, we produce wine."
"When the grape comes through the crushing, it knows it will never be a grape again, but it will be wine."
"Winemaking has characterized the culture of this area."