But if one makes the right adjustments in winemaking (lower levels of SO2, longer aging in cellar, holding the wine in bottle longer before release) the benefits far outweigh the inconvenience. There is some very interesting research to be done on the phenomenon of post-bottling reduction (which occurs in both screwcap and corked bottles). MORE >>

Before tasting the wines, I did as much Internet research as I could. This means that village producers can not dig the deep cellars ideal for aging and they can not prolong barrel maturation for more than a year. White Burgundy Tasting. You both decide on white fish as an entrée, so you are leaning toward a white wine. MORE >>

Sylvain points out a cage for birds (they must have been chosen for color and beauty) and a potato cellar, as well as some alters carved into the rock that one can enter for a few feet. The wine is racked, settles for a day, put into the oak barrels, and rests on its lees in the cool cellar for 15 - 18 months. The Cellar. MORE >>

John Gilman, author of the newsletter The View from the Cellar , joins us again for a Q&A. But being younger than the gentleman I just mentioned, I do not have the same reserves of old vintages of white Burgundy or white Bordeaux in my cellar, and so premox has really hit my collection hard. Are these wines forcibly better? MORE >>

“Finger Lakes wineries now number nearly 100, and one of the newest and most interesting is the tiny Damiani Wine Cellars (tel. So, off to research Damiani Wine Cellars. 607/546-5557), in Hector on the east side of Seneca Lake. This is one to watch. Or drink.” One bottle was labeled Damiani vino rosso (good Italian name). MORE >>