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The 2009 Fusebox Blend-Off Championships

Monday, October 19th, 2009

You’ve heard of cookoffs, playoffs and at the ballot box even runoffs.  This year we’re introducing a new kind of off and it’s a blend-off.  That’s right a blend-off.  As in a winemaking blendoff between ten illustrious wine bloggers.  We hereby give you the first annual 2009 fusebox blend-off competition.
We’ve armed each of these dynamic [...]

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Winery in a Box

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Late last night we finalized a strategic partnership with Bin to Bottle in Napa that is a huge step forward in our ability to launch and support wine brands.  We will be providing our set of Crushpad Commerce services (compliance, e-commerce, marketing, logistics, etc) to the premiere custom crush facility in Napa.  This has the [...]

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Cap Management - Red Wine and Sub-Caps

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

How to keep grape skins in contact with the fermenting wine to extract tannins
The level of color and flavor extraction you get during fermentation is critical to the quality of the finished wine. Color is extracted primarily before, or early in the fermentation process. To get the proper tannin extraction to balance the fruit component [...]

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More Love for Canine Wines

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Congratulations to Crushpad Commerce customers, Matt Raymond and Kelly Naughtin and their Canine Wines brand. We wrote about them a few months back when they were featured in the Contra Costa Times. Now the American Winery site is showing them some love with a nice post here
Canine Wines is a great story. With the [...]

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Crush Camps - Get your Grape On!

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Stu leads the volunteer cellar rats through all of the winemaking steps in a single visit to Crushpad
Each morning at 10am, Crushpad friends and family cross the fermentation threshold to take part in Crushcamp. This winemaking overview attempts to squeeze a semester at UC Davis into 3-hours; with grapes stains from splatter, spatter, smear and [...]

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Crushing Grapes the Old Fashioned Way

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Yesterday Kristen, one of our new winery staff members, got the honors of doing a little old fashioned grape stomping.  This particular bin of grenache had some whole stem inclusion and we wanted to break up those berries that didn’t break during punchdowns.

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Winemaker’s Minute Episode #26 - Deciding When to Pick a Vineyard

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

After a long season the critical decision of when to pick the fruit involves a lot of variables
Deciding when to pick wine grapes is a very complex process. We evaluate both analytical ripeness and physiological ripeness when making pick decisions. Ideally the grapes would be physiologically ripe at the exact moment the sugars and acids [...]

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Winemaker’s Minute Episode #25 Getting Initial TA, pH, and Brix Numbers

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Knowing the chemical makeup of your grapes on harvest day is critical to getting your wine started properly.
A lot of thought and debate goes into when you pick a vineyard but once those grapes hit the winery, you have to react to what mother nature and the hard working vineyard crew delivered. This means that [...]

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How Do You Cool Off a Hot Fermentation?

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Ferment temperatures are key to hitting your stylistic goals, both for aromas, and flavors. Making small batches of wine presents a set of challenges not faced by massive wineries where they have huge temperature-controlled vats. Your ferment temperature needs to be hot enough to get the level of extraction you want but if you let [...]

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Is That a Winemaker in Your Pocket?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

No, it’s the Crushnet TV Podcast! And we’re happy to see it.

Want to learn how to make wine while flying at 30,000 feet? Want to figure out your oak regimen for your wine while you’re on lunch break? Now you can take the Crushpad winemaking team with you wherever you go by subscribing to our [...]

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Wine Maker’s Minute — Racking Wines

Monday, August 11th, 2008

We’re always out to demystify wine making and make it more accessible. One way we try to do that is with our Wine Maker’s Minute videos. Check out our newest episode below. It covers “racking” — drawing the clear wine off the top of the sediment that settles to the bottom of [...]

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