Bondar Wines with Andre & Selina – Talking Eggs, Cocaine, Koala’s & Naturally, Tasty Vino
Let the Giggle Festa Begin! With these 2 at Wine Decoded HQ life is full of laughs! They’re kicking out some delicious wines from McLaren Vale.
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Equipo Navazos a wine La Botamay. Literally Mind Blowing Wine.
Jesús Barquín and friends have a long-standing love for the great wines of Andalusia. Home to the Sherry Bodegas that have cared for many incredible wines. Now he has become a custodian of some of it’s most revered wines, and, reviving a long lost style of table wine made under flor!
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Getting Your Head Around Burgundy Part 2 – Tiny Old Vines & Heaps of them!
As you drive down the A6 from Paris, turn off at the N74 you start to see grape vines. Initially, you think you’ve gone a little cross-eyed from the long flight. Then you realise your eyes aren’t lying the vines are minute and packed close together!
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Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 20 Racking Bathtub Shiraz V17
Alcoholic fermentation has finished and the Bathtub Winemaking Project Shiraz has been pressed and is now resting in either tank or barrel.
Malolactic fermentation has started converting malic acid to the softer lactic acid. We need to start raising the wine, the process of élévage begins.
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Getting Your Head Around Burgundy Part 1 – Vineyards, Classifications & Villages
This will be the first in many articles to help you understand Burgundy, the mythical home of Pinot Noir & Chardonnay.
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Cutting Edge Priorat from Dominik Huber’s Terroir al Límit
The Priorat revival has been underway for a few decades now. Add a German Chef to the mix with a vision & the drive to make great wine & the results have been something special.
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Pressing Time – The Shiraz is Heading out of the Bathtub & Into the Basket Press – Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 14
We’ve been working hard on the Shiraz in the Bathtubs to get the texture just right!
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Dunking Stalk Teabags – Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 12
Spice, Perfume, Tannin .. some like it strong, some like it weak, some with a splash of milk, lemon, or a spoon of sugar!
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The Art & Science of Tasting Ferments – Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 11 Episode 2
Tasting a fermenting wine goes against everything you’d do when drinking a finished wine!
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Buggy Moving Ferments are Cranking – Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 11 Episode 1
Guiding ferments during the peak of ferment requires wisdom & agility.
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Just how do we get all the colour tannin and flavour out of our Shiraz berries? – Bathub Winemaking Project Day 7
Pumping over is just one of the ways.
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Fermentation is Starting to Kick – Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 6
Our whole bunch Shiraz ferment is starting to kick. Now it’s time to think about fermentation temperature & ongoing tannin management
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Wild Fermentation & Foot Stomping Whole Bunches – The Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 3
It’s school holidays and that can mean only one thing, time to put the kids to work stomping grapes!
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Waiting for Fermentation to Start – The Bathtub Winemaking Project Day 2
All quiet in the Wine Decoded Tiny Winery. Fermentation hasn’t started yet.
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The 2017 Bathtub Winemaking Project is GO! Fruit is In!
Day 1 – After a long wait our Yarra Valley Shiraz is off the vine & in the winery!
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Winemaking Excellence – Fruit Sorting & Destemming at Yabby Lake with Tom Carson
Making exceptional wine takes thought and patience. Every step of the winemaking process presents you with a choice. In the winery, it begins when the fruit arrives. ?
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Grape Sampling Time for the Bathtub Winemaking Project 2017
The Great Challenge … Finding the Perfect Time to Pick Your Grapes!
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Winemaker Sessions #3 Roberto Voerzio – La Morra & Barolo
Roberto Voerzio is one of the Barolo Boys! He has extreme dedication to quality, his vineyards are spectacular, his wines filled with personality & incredible purity!
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Tasting! Tasting! Tasting! Always Tasting!
Just how do the WINE DECODED crew choose wines to share with you?
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Véraison Explained in Less Time than it Would Take to Drink Half a Glass of Yummy Vino!
When the Colour Starts to Change we Know Vintage is Just Around the Corner!
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The Vineyard Sessions #1 with Stuart Proud
Hitting the Vineyards to Find Out Just What it Takes to Grow a Yummy Grape at the very site Wine Decoded sources it’s fruit from for the Bathtub Winemaking Project!
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The Angels are Stealing our Wine: Topping Barrels 1 min Winemaking Quickie
We top up the Bathtub Winemaking Projects barrels every two weeks. This 1 minute winemaking quickie explains why!
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Wacky Racky Time … Ghetto Style! Making Wine Yummier V16E10
It’s time to Rack the Wine Decoded Bathtub Shiraz! Decanting it out of tank and barrel removing anything that has settled to the bottom and introduce a little bit of oxygen to help the wine develop.
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Sulphur Addition to Old Wine – Materials and Method
For the hardcore who have some old vino that’s past it’s prime & want to save it from the drain!
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Winemaker Sessions #2 Pete Schell – Spinifex Wines, Barossa Valley
Pete Schell from Spinifex Wines in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, dropped by Wine Decoded HQ to talk all things Vinous.He’s making some of the funniest wines coming out of the Barossa and has definitely been a leader in making fresher, yummy wines with real personality from the Barossa.
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Crystal Clear – Just how do we get a wine to sparkle in the glass without filtering it? V16E09
In the latest episode of the Bathtub Winemaking Project we talk about Natural Sedimentation for unfiltered wine. What’s it all about? How does it work?
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Couple of Central Victorian Reds from Two of Australia’s oldest producers!
They always seem to have rustic chewy tannins, savoury fruit, yet retain freshness, not heading to that jammy state and can be incredibly long lived.
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Getting Extra Yumminess into the Bathtub Shiraz! Why We Age it in Oak & Tank?
In the latest episode of the Bathtub Winemaking Project we talk Oak vs Tank. How does the vessel you mature your wine in change it? What are we looking for and trying to achieve?
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Winemaker Sessions #1 Peter Cowley, TeMata Estate, Hawkes Bay
Peter Cowley from TeMata Estate in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, dropped into Wine Decoded HQ to shoot the breeze last week.
Turns out he knows a thing or two about making Filthy Good Vino.
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Stalks in Wine – Dunking the Biggest Teabag Ever! BWP V16E07
Stalks can impart an incredible spice into red wine adding intrigue! They also add tannin, some times you want them in your wine, other times you need to remove them! Watch as we remove stalks from our Yarra Valley Shiraz and explain what we were trying to achieve by using them!