If you’ve ever sipped a wine that tasted like a sun-warmed banana or a fresh piece of pink bubblegum, you’ve experienced carbonic maceration. Carbonic maceration is a technique used during ...

In practice, the weight of the grapes on the top crushes the grapes on the bottom and yeasts ferment the juice; the wine is partly a product of carbonic maceration and partly of traditional yeast ...

In practice, the weight of the grapes on the top crushes the grapes on the bottom and yeasts ferment the juice; the wine is partly a product of carbonic maceration and partly of traditional yeast ...

Every so often a wine comes along that is so enjoyable it is hard not to pour yourself a second, or perhaps a third glass.

To pick a bottle of wine can often feel like roulette, especially when wine terms like “malolactic fermentation” and “carbonic maceration” are involved. However, if you understand a few key ...