New World Winemaker Blog

Here are some of the websites we visit often and that we think you might find interesting. We welcome your suggestions on other sites we can add. 

1. Jamie Goode is a London-based winewriter who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express: http://wineanorak.com/blog/
2. Are you interested in making almond wine, apple wine, apricot wine and banana wine? The website: http://www.winemaking.jackkeller.net has various home winemaking recipes as well as general information on wine yeasts and winemaking at home.
3. New World Winemaker is a new-world wine yeast web site dedicated to the latest news and technologies that may advance the creation, management and making of quality wines: http://www.newworldwinemaker.com
4. Both professional and home winemakers often have to think and calculate a bit to determine what they need to add to must or wine to correct imbalances. A new website, wineadds.com, is designed to simplify that task. Accessed online from either a computer or iPhone/iPod (in WiFi range), it easily calculates additions for acid, sugar, sulfur dioxide, copper, nutrients and yeast, as well as adjusting the Brix of musts.
5. The website, VinoEnology.com, is helping professional winemakers during their hectic crush. It was founded by Petar Kirilov, an industry consultant and winemaker for reverse osmosis and de-alc specialist Vinovation. Visitors to the website can instantly access winemaking calculators for:
   • Fermentation (Brix, yeast, nutrients);
   • Chaptalization and water dilution (sugar and water additions);
   • SO₂ (addition of potassium metabisulfite and liquid SO₂ solution);
   • Acid addition (tartaric, malic and citric acid addition);
   • Fining and oak addition (clarification and oak wood chips addition);
   • Fortification (alcohol addition);
   • Blending and cost calculator (wine blending and cost).