Just how does grape juice become wine anyway? In today's edition of Ask The Expert we examine the core process behind the ...

Ancestral Method: An inexpensive but risky and difficult-to-control method of producing sparkling wine, and almost certainly the oldest, in which the primary fermentation is stopped before completing, ...

A French term for lightly sparkling. Pétillant Naturel (Pét-Nat):: Sparkling wines made using the ancestral method, an inexpensive but difficult-to-control technique in which the wine’s primary ...

Through empirical observation, people learned that temperature and air exposure are key to the fermentation process. Wine producers traditionally used their feet to soften and grind the grapes ...