The Wine Demystifier

Acids form one of the four key components of wine, along with Alcohol, Tannins and Sugars (Sweetness). The nirvana for a winemaker is getting all these components in balance, the result, is usually a great wine!  I should start by saying that technically speaking, all wines are acidic, by which I mean they have a natural pH between 2.5 and 4.5 (a pH of 7 is neutral), but some grapes are naturally more acidic than others, and all lose…

In this time of enforced isolation and with only so many jobs that can be done around the house, I thought it would be a good opportunity to use the time to create some bite size wine related blogs that will literally take just a few minutes to read.  Starting tomorrow, for the next 26 days I will be posting an A-Z of wine: useful snippets of information, ranging from grape varieties to methods of production, winemaking terms to…