We just added a new section to this blog. It's the "Favorite Websites" section which list some of our favorite wine making websites. You can find this section in the column on the right of this page--just below the "Month" section.

Some of our "favorites" are informational sites; some are wine appreciations sites; and some are just too interesting not to be included in the list. "Drink The Vine" is one of the sites that fits into all three categories. It covers a broad range of topics surrounding wine, everything from commercially made wines to articles about home winemakers.

And, if you are looking for wine recipes, "Jack Keller Winemaking" has a huge archive of recipes from the common to the hard-to-find. He also has a tremendous amount of information in the way articles.

We'll be adding to this list as more sites become our favorites.

The age of the internet is just amazing to me. Just the ease with which information flows today fills me with astonishment. This is coming from someone who remembers getting up to change the channel on the television in BC [before cable]. Thanks to services such a Google, YouTube and many others, we can all learn more about, and enjoy, our favorite hobbies.

Here are a couple of videos I found on the internet that show a couple of various perspectives on the art and science of making wine.

As time goes on, I intend to keep an eye out for more videos on wine making that are worth of attention. I'll bring them to you here as they become available. You may also want to keep up on it on your own. Just go to youtube.com and type in "wine making" in the search field.

Can't believe it's November already. The frost is already on the pumpkin and the turkey is on its way. Just looked at the national weather map and it looks like cooler weather is also on the way for most areas of the U.S. as well.

I would like to take this time to remind those of you who are fermenting right

now that the temperature of your must is critical to the rate of fermentation. Don't let cooler ambient room temperatures get in the way of your fermentations.

Make sure that the must stays at least 70 degrees F. Temperatures below this can slow the fermentation dramatically and in many cases stop it altogether. Even a fermentation that's still at 70 degrees F. will only ferment about half as fast as a fermentation at 75 degrees F. on average, so as you can see just a few degrees can make a big difference.