All Things Growing, Fermenting & Making Wine
March WOTM: Oxygen
By Mackenzie Brisbois
Oxygen is complicated. It can help, hinder, destroy, build!
To simplify, let’s look at three ma...
February WOTM: Malolactic Fermentation
By: Mackenzie Brisbois
Often called malo or MLF for short, malolactic fermentation is an optional technique employed...
SA x Trail Estate: Part 4 — Harvest Has Begun
Harvest 2022 has begun. We have carefully planned and plotted this amazing winemaking opportunity in South Africa. ...
SA x Trail Estate: Part 3
Written by: Mackenzie BrisboisThe Drift Farm
Trail Estate will be making wine at Bruce Jack’s winery, The Drift.
Loc...
SA X Trail Estate: Part 2
Written by Mackenzie Brisbois
Scouting: Roodeberg Vineyard on Waaihoek RoadThe farm is located in the Breedekloof Wi...
SA X Trail Estate: Part 1
Written by Mackenzie Brisbois.
Scouting: Silkbush Mountain Vineyard
The farm is called Silkbush Mountain Vineyard and...
January 2022 — Pét Nat
I find Pét Nats fascinating for their purity — not in a conventional sense, but in a fruit-meets-fermentation-meets-palate-immediately sense.
Fronte-Snack: A Collaboration with The Grape Witches
In their words:
Allow us to introduce you to a very special collaboration between Grape Witches and Prince Edward Cou...
Harvest 2021
An Afternoon of Harvest. Chardonnay Pick 2021.
A Photo Essay by Ariel Shortt.
If you would like to help us at the wi...
Oak Flavour Compounds
By: Mackenzie Brisbois
Winemakers have a lot of choice when it comes to oak!
I use almost exclusively neutral used ba...
Organics
The following is an excerpt from our July Wine of the Month Club.Written by Mackenzie Brisbois.What Does Organic Grap...
Orange Wine
The following is an excerpt from our June Wine Of the Month Club.Written by Mackenzie Brisbois.Skin Contact or No Ski...