“And since all of this happens in the bottle, the yeast sediment often remains, making the wine cloudy or even chunky, depending on how much the winemaker cares about clarity,” Bowen say ...

Yeast comes in different strains and a winemaker ... in grapes is what accounts for the higher alcohol levels in a bottle of wine versus a can of beer. You can find beers with higher ABVs than ...

The labor-intensive process whereby wine undergoes a secondary fermentation inside the bottle, creating bubbles. The process begins with the addition of a liqueur de tirage (a wine solution of sugar ...

• To create an effervescent wine, rack the wine into a clean jug. • Dissolve 2 heaping tablespoons of priming sugar in a small amount of warm water, and add to the jug. • Swirl the wine to ...

Ancestral Method: An inexpensive but risky and difficult-to-control method of producing sparkling wine, and almost certainly the oldest, in which the primary fermentation is stopped before completing, ...