Tag: winemaking
Vinography Images: Talha Tales
Winery employee Sebastião fills a talha at Fitapreta Vinehos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. The Romans first introduced the terra cotta
Vinography Images: Must Swirl
Bright crimson must swirls through a tank during a pumpover at Fitapreta Vinhos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. Fitapreta is the
Vinography Images: Pumpover Patterns
The start of a pumpover, known in French as remontage, offers photographer and cellar rat David Sawyer a tableau of
I’ll Drink to That!: Winemaker Steve Doerner
There’s a new episode of I’ll Drink to That! available. Episode 495 features Steve Doerner, who is listed these days
Vinography Images: Rivulets
Fine lees show patterns of rivulets, like an aerial photograph of a river delta, at the bottom of a drained
Vinography Images: Spotless and Ready
A view up into the motionless core of a destemming machine, whose rubber blades and mesh of holes neatly separate
Vinography Images: Good Vibrations
Shiny berries of Cabernet Sauvignon and just a few stem jacks are all that is left after the vibrating sorting
Vinography Images: Flame of Freshness
A burning sulfur cake glows blue in the bunghole of an old barrel at Fitapreta Vinhos in the Alentejo region
Vinography Images: The Color of Delicious
New wine shines a vivid garnet-purple against the metal of the press pan during pressing at Anomaly Vineyards in St.
Vinography Images: Constellations of Life
Looking like nothing so much as maps of constellations, patterns emerge in the bubbles of fermenting yeasts in a talha,
Vinography Images: Breathing Wine
Fermenting must hits the sieve before filling the open-top, 130-gallon tank where it will be pumped up & sprayed into the
Vinography Images: Tight Cellar
The packed, and well-used cellar of Mee Godard in the Beaujolais village of Morgon is starkly illuminated by flourescent lights
Vinography Images: The Early Taste
Purple residue of press juice stains glasses and the table in the cellar at Anomaly Vineyards in St. Helena, California.
Vinography Images: Feel the Flavor
A Cabernet pumpover proceeds at Covert Estate in the Coombsville AVA of Napa Valley. The French term is remontage, which
Vinography Images: The Gift of Air
Cabernet Sauvignon hits the splash pan to aerate during pump overs at Outpost Estate atop Napa’s Howell Mountain. Known as
Vinography Images: Steaming Barrels
Steaming Barrels, Mayacamas VineyardsA cellar worker cleans barrels at the famed Mayacamas Vineyards estate on the top of Mount Veeder
Crushpad – The Death of a Business Model
Silicon Valley lies a mere 90 miles from the heart of California wine country, but sits worlds apart. The frenzy
Winemaking as Therapy: Japan’s Autistic Winery
When I first started drinking wine, I had all sorts of romantic notions about what winemaking involved. I though of
In Search of the Cynical Winemaker
I had a conversation the other night with a fellow wine writer that unsettled me. We were tasting a number
