Wine Technique

New York’s Le Bernardin is one of the top restaurants in the United States. Meet chef-owner Eric Ripert and learn to make his exquisite sautéed cod with pea shoots and ginger-lemon-scallion broth.

Picking wine grapes is a mix of art and science. Three measurements are often mentioned: Brix, Ph, and Acidity. In this video, Wes Hagen of Clos Pepe defines each and talks about Birx levels in California, in German Rielsing, in Champagne, and in the Rhone Valley. This is a useful video for WSET students and

Watch Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon grapevine growth stages with this life cycle time lapse video, showing as the vines transform through their growing season from bud break (April 10) to veraison (August 15) at Jordan Winery in Sonoma County, California. Watch the full time-lapse video, “Life Cycle of a Grapevine:” https://blog.jordanwinery.com/2014/04/time-lapse-video-365-days-with-a-cabernet-grapevine/

Natural wines can be made from conventionally grown grapes and industrial wines can be made from Biodynamic grapes. Winemaker Eric Texier explains some of the labels that people use to describe wines made with and without chemicals. All of our videos with Eric Texier: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?feature=edit_ok&list=PLddUmDhg4G_Ii80zEvJNTWZi1n9NvHZwX Ask a Winemaker on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/askawinemaker?ref=hl Ask a Winemaker on

Learn how wine barrels are made for oak aging with a hands-on demonstration by Nadalie Cooperage in Napa Valley. Watch coopers, or barrel makers, in action making wine barrels by hand, from bending wood staves to toasting barrels. https://blog.jordanwinery.com/2011/04/the-art-of-old-world-winemaking-how-to-make-a-wine-barrel-video/

Whole cluster fermentation refers to putting the entire cluster of grapes, stems, stalks and all, into the fermenting tank. Todd Hamina in Oregon likes to use the technique because it reduces the damage to the grapes that can happen with grapes are destemmed. Watch our entire collection of videos with Todd Hamina: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLddUmDhg4G_KhloZrUThDwv10P5ItBXqs Biggio Hamina

Jordan Winery’s baker extraordinaire, Cristina Valencia, returns to show tips and techniques for making the perfect chocolate truffle. Cristina teaches you how to make three different kinds of truffles using one simple recipe. View the complete recipe on our blog: http://blog.jordanwinery.com/2013/02/how-to-make-chocolate-truffles-video-demonstration-and-recipe/

What should a home wine maker do if the wine smells like rotten eggs and has a problem with Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)? Fred Scherrer of the Scherrer Winery explains how low nutrients leads to the build of of H2S and what can be done to help. He suggests using copper, but warns that it is

Jordan Winery’s baker extraordinaire, Cristina Valencia, returns to show tips and techniques for baking the perfect pie crust from scratch. View the complete pie dough crust recipe, including pie filling, on our website: https://www.jordanwinery.com/culinary/recipes/wine-country-flaky-apple-pie. Don’t forget: This pie will taste sweeter if you start the meal with a bottle of food-friendly wine: https://www.jordanwinery.com/shop. This flaky

Grape vines in Burgundy see far less sunshine than their counterparts in Oregon and Sonoma simply because of how far north they sit. Winemaker Alex Gambal explains the differences in the angle of the sunlight and the amount of sunlight that each region receives over the course of the summer. In many ways, this is

Jordan Winery’s baker extraordinaire, Cristina Valencia, returns to show tips and techniques for how to make macarons with an easy macaron recipe. View the complete recipe at https://winecountrytable.com/watch/desserts/how-to-make-french-macarons-cookie-recipe-ideas-baking-tips. These delicate cookies will impress any winter guest and cookie lover. Cristina teaches you how to prepare your ingredients, how to customize the flavor of the cookies

How do Sommeliers learn to taste wine? Rajat Parr, who oversees the wine program of the Michael Mina restaurant group and now makes wines at Sandhi Wines, explains how he learned. He adds that with study, blind tasting is “actually fairly easy” when wines are presented in their classic form. Filmed at the International Pinot

Natural Wine is a term widely used but rarely defined. Frank Cornelissen, growing and venting on Mount Etna in Sicily offers his definition of the term and insists that it goes beyond simply not using sulfites in the cellar. This is part one of 2 in our series. Watch part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnpRZAm0USQ&list=PLddUmDhg4G_J8ee7_bIqp8ynkfDYYo8nt&index=18 Ask a Winemaker

On Pronouncing the 10 Cru Beaujolais : French born turned Chilean Winemaker Louis-Antoine Luyt helps us with an informative and quirky listen on the correct ways to say – Chénas – Chiroubles – Cote de Brouilly – Fleurie – Juliénas – Morgon – Moulin à Vent – Régnié – Saint Amour Ask a Winemaker filmed

How to pronounce Melon de Bourgogne? How about Pinot Noir, Grolleau, and Malvoisie? There are more grapes that grow in and around the Muscadet region of the Loire Valley than you might think. Here, Jo Landron of Domaine de la Louvetrie pronounces them for you. Que du bonheur. How to pronounce the regions of Beaujolais:

Malolactic Fermentation is the conversion of Malic acid to Lactic acid in wines, but that is not all that is happening. Fred Scherrer of the Scherrer Winery gave us a detailed description of this process. Filmed with Fred Scherrer at the winery in California and City Winery Chicago. See all of our videos with Fred