Thu, 20 April 2017
Spanning wine regions in Israel, California, Walla Walla, and Chile winemaker, Maayan Koschitzky, has accumulated more winemaking experience in ten years than many enologists would in an entire career. Our conversation in this episode explores the practices of Kosher winemaking, especially from Maayan's early career in Israel. After moving the the US to take winery jobs at Screaming Eagle and Dalla Valle Vineyards, Maayan moved into his current position as Director of Winemaking at Atelier Melka, working with Philippe Melka. This episode is full of great technical discussion of winemaking both in the vineyard and winery. LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Deep Winemaking 2017 is scheduled for August 10-12th in Napa. Come spend three days immersed in technical visits with winemakers, viticulturists, barrel cooperages, and wine laboratories with other like-minded aspiring winemakers.Please email me with any questions or comments about winemaking or this podcast jim@insidewinemaking.comThe Inside Winemaking Podcast on iTunes Questions? Comments? Let me know what you think: jim@insidewinemaking.com |
Thu, 6 April 2017
In this episode I take questions submitted from listeners and give my best advice. Winemaking is like cooking in that there is rarely a discreet best answer, so each response is to be taken with a grain of salt. There's more than one way to ferment a grape. When appropriate I explain how you might scale up or down given the size of winery involved. Questions in this episode about how to make wine cover: the use of SO2, winemaking in Texas, nutritional strategies for native fermentation management, red-wine color extraction, the myths and realities of decanting wines, how dry yeast can ferment a must, can vs. spur pruning, how to run a safe extended maceration on a small scale, predicting wine flavors from grape flavor, and the difference between cold settling and cold stabilization after an addition of Potassium Carbonate. LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
If you are interested in the Napa winemaking immersion experience I am putting together for 3 days in August, 2017, send me an email...... jim@insidewinemaking.com The Inside Winemaking Podcast on iTunes Questions? Comments? Let me know what you think: jim@insidewinemaking.com |