During our recent club meeting where we explored Pinot Noir, our presenters discussed the different clones used, for example, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley – 777 or 667 being popular clones. Some of us were not up to speed on clone …
PINOT NOIR – THE HEARTBREAK GRAPE
Our March meeting of Nanaimo Winemakers took place again via Zoom and with the resourcefulness of our Education Coordinator – Cindy Scott – and the industry knowledge of our wine club presenters – Conny Classen and Robert Steinbach – members …
Preparing Wine For Bottling
February’s Nanaimo Winemakers club zoom meeting featured a presentation by our own Ian Baker who shared valuable preparation reminders to improve success in bottling your wine. We are pleased to include Ian’s notes from his presentation and a link to …
Your Homemade Wine May Only Taste As Good As Your Label
Your Homemade Wine May Only Taste As Good As Your Label So, you’ve spent hours, days, weeks and months nurturing, testing, stirring, racking, more tasting, maybe blending and finally its time to bottle and cellar your wine. How much have …
Yan Calculator
This is the latest version (Oct 2014) of the Excel tool the Willem Wyngaards developed on the basis of the previous article. We call it a YAN calculator, but it is really a nitrogen addition calculator (and it also calculates yeast additions).