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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
Hearth is the newest Cabernet Sauvignon from Josh Cellars. Joseph Carr began by selling Josh wines (Named for his Father) out of the back of his truck in 2007. In the beginning, he only made one wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, but soon thereafter began ma...
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Ever Wonder?
In winemaking, wood barrels impart textures, aromas and flavors into the final product. Wines can be fermented and/or aged in oak barrels anywhere from six months to two years or longer. Many red wines are aged in some type of oak barrels while f...
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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
The Domaine Bousquet winery is a family-owned estate in the Gualtallary Valley, a scenic, remote, arid terrain high in the Uco Valley (4000-plus-foot elevation) in Argentina’s Mendoza region, close to the border with Chile. Their wines are made from ...
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Winemaking
Last time we looked at acidity levels in wine that are measured on the pH scale and in terms of grams of acid per liter (Total Acidity). While Total Acidity is a measure of the concentration of acids in a wine, the pH level tells you how intense tho...
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Behind the Cork™ Reviews
The Domaine Bousquet winery is a family-owned estate in the Gualtallary Valley, a scenic, remote, arid terrain high in the Uco Valley in Argentina’s Mendoza region, close to the border with Chile. Their wines are made from hand-picked, certified orga...
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Winemaking
Acidity in wine is one of the four fundamental traits of a good wine (Acidity, Tannin, Alcohol and Sweetness). For a wine to be considered “good,” each of these traits must be in proper proportion or ‘balance’ to each another. If there’s too much of ...
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