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Tag Archives: wine making
When NOT to Blend
When NOT to Blend Recently I was working with a winery who had a wonderful 2012 harvest of Vermentino. My standard procedure for presenting wines to the winery owner is to make at least two different blends and use a … Continue reading
Let Your Sales Forecast Be Your Guide
Let Your Sales Forecast Be Your Guide What is the difference between these two perspectives? 1. Winery owner produces a wine(s) and needs to sell it to fulfill the sales goal. 2. Winery owner has a sales goal and needs … Continue reading
Nouveau is More Than Beaujolais!
How about bringing a bit of European tradition to your winery this harvest by making a small batch of nouveau wine? When we think of nouveau wine, we often think of Beaujolais. This is not because nouveau wine originated there, … Continue reading
Create Positive Cash Flow Faster (Part 4): Custom Crush
This is final blog in this series: Three Ways to Produce Positive ROI in Half the Time or Less. We previously broke down how a traditional winery is actually three separate businesses – growing grapes, making wine and retailing. Using … Continue reading
It’s All About Style! What’s Your Wine Style?
I hear this question from new winemakers and wineries of The Other 46: wine style What is the wine style for my region or AVA? That includes grapes, but also what kind of wine should they make. From a high … Continue reading
A Case for Micro-Fermentation: Leap From Good To Great (Part 2)
In my previous blog, Accelerate the Style and Quality of Your Wine Exponentially , we talked about The Other 46 having relatively very few years to gather and review historical methods and processes to pass down through the generations, but that … Continue reading
Accelerate the Style & Quality of Your Wine Exponentially: Micro-Fermentation (Part 1)
As a winery in The Other 46, how do you make the best quality wine consistently year after year? By that I mean, let’s look at Bordeaux. The wineries in the Bordeaux region know how to make Bordeaux wine because … Continue reading