Here Are Some Suggestions on How to Evaluate Wine

Wine is a complex chemical beverage. Besides the primary acids of tartaric, malic, lactic, and citric, Australian wine scientist Bryce Rankine has identified 23 additional organic acids found in wine in varying amounts, including acetic acid (responsible for the sour taste of vinegar), ascorbic acid (also known as vitamin C), butyric acid (causes a smell …

How Valid and Reliable Are Wine Judging Events? Part 1

After making wine for a few years, many of us amateur winemakers entered our creations into wine judging events. If you are like me, the first time you dipped your winemaking toes tentatively into the seemingly daunting waters of such competitions you were simply delighted by not being frost bitten by the judges’ evaluations. “A …