All Things Growing, Fermenting & Making Wine
Soils: The Dirt on Wine
Finally hoping I might dish some salacious materials about wines? Guess again! I’m just going to talk about dirt.
And...
Ageing Orange Wines
How old is too old with orange wine? Although Orange Wine production is a wine style that has been around forever, we...
Yeast and Creaminess (In Sparkling)
Where is yeast heaven?
If I were a yeast I would head straight for the bottle of champagne and not a bottle of kombuc...
In Praise of the Versatility of Riesling
If you cut a sommelier they will bleed Riesling. That is to say they really like drinking Riesling. I don’t recommend...
Cover Crops
With the conversion of our vineyard from a hilling-up vineyard to a geotextile vineyard, we began planting cover crop...
April WOTM: Who Put Forest Floor In My Glass?
By: Mackenzie Brisbois
Where do all those tastes and aromas come from?
Who put forest floor in my glass?
In Jamie Go...
Oxygen
Oxygen is complicated. It can help, hinder, destroy, build!
To simplify, let’s look at three main stages and investig...
Malolactic Fermentation
Often called malo or MLF for short, malolactic fermentation is an optional technique employed by winemakers. It is a ...
SA x Trail Estate: Part 4 — Harvest Has Begun
Harvest 2022 has begun. We have carefully planned and plotted this amazing winemaking opportunity in South Africa. ...
SA x Trail Estate: Part 3
The Drift Farm
Trail Estate will be making wine at Bruce Jack’s winery, The Drift.
Located in Napier, a small town ea...
SA X Trail Estate: Part 2
Scouting: Roodeberg Vineyard on Waaihoek RoadThe farm is located in the Breedekloof Wine Region of South Africa and ...
SA X Trail Estate: Part 1
Written by Mackenzie Brisbois.
Scouting: Silkbush Mountain Vineyard
The farm is called Silkbush Mountain Vineyard and...