Cellar Dwellers - Home Winemaking

We're exploring the ins and outs of making wine from frozen grapes, specifically from Peter Brehm Vineyards.

We're exploring the ins and outs of making wine from frozen grapes, specifically from Peter Brehm Vineyards.

Dave and The Other Guy (TOG) are back after a long holiday break! For tonight's internet wine tasting we'll be comparing a $3 box of Vendange California Shiraz to a $49 bottle of Stag's Leap 2004 Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon. There's also plenty of wine news to review including the Top 10 Fat Bastard Awards.

In this episode we'll discuss your favorite turkey recipes (for US Thanksgiving) and best wine pairings (Zin, Syrah, other??). We'll taste a nouveaux beaujolais for our internet wine tasting.

Sometime 'round Monday night we'll figure out what this show is about. Check back then. Our internet wine tasting this week will be of Cotes Du Rhone - Parallele "45". Grab your own bottle and compare notes with us.

It's Cellar Dwellers Home Winemaking Halloween Edition. We discuss the 4 most common wine defects, how to detect them, and how to avoid them. For our internet wine tasting tonight, we share a 2002 Alder Brook Old Vine Zinfandel from Dry Creek Valley. Join us LIVE!!!

Oak pioneer Pier Benci joins us to talk about oak. Listen and you'll never use barrels again. This week's internet wine tasting is of Korbel Brut Rose "champagne".

Report on the Cabernet grapes in process and a virtual wine tasting of Clos du Bois 2003 Cabernet - Sonoma County.

This year's home winemaking begins with 850 lbs of Cabernet and 70 lbs of Grenache. We do a virtual winetasting of two grades of BV Cabernet.

Join us for a live blending of various homemade wines and, of course, another virtual wine tasting. This week's selection is Robert Mondavi Cabernet - Private Selection.

Learn all about decanting. Experience the decanting experiment and decide for yourself how to practice. Bring your Robert Mondavi Private Selection Cabernet Sauvignon to our next virtual wine tasting.

In this episode, we discuss the biggest mistake virtually all home winemakers make. Plus we share wine news about a likely fraud involving the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. Bring your J. Lohr Seven Oaks 2002 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon to our virtual wine tasting.

Join us for our new streamlined show format and the next virtual winetasting - bring your bottle of Chateau Ste Michelle - Columbia Valley SYRAH - 2002

This week's live show will be on Wednesday. Grab a bottle of YellowTail Shiraz and join us for week two of our virtual wine tasting. We talk all about how wine yeast is produced.

The Cellar Dwellers talk to Mike Hockenberry about making sparkling wine (AKA Champagne) at home. Be sure to bring your bottles of Ravenswood Vintner's Reserve (2003 or 2004) to this episode as we'll do a virtual wine tasting and compare notes.

In this episode, Dave and T.O.G. discuss various grape problems including too much sugar, molds, early fermentation, and such. They also do a final sampling of the 2005 Syrah and decide whether it's time to bottle.

What do you do when you have grapes with too little (or too much) acid? We discuss the 4 types of acid, how to measure it, and how to adjust it.

In this episode, we have fun drinking the wine we've made. We also share a bottle of Richard's Pinot Gris (from New Zealand), and talk about wine glasses, decanters, and other related wine stuff.

In this episode, we discuss different choices in labels, labeling software, printers (for non-water-soluble ink), and label art. We also talk about how T.O.G. got his name.

Join "Clink" (Dave Nelsen) and "Drink" (The Other Guy) as they discuss corks, cork history, more idoms, corking, "corked" wine (TCA) and, as usual, a variety of random stuff.