Cellar Dwellers - Home Winemaking

Dave and The Other Guy (TOG) resurface after a long New Years Eve recovery.

We're thrilled to be back tonight after our long holiday break! Tonight we'll be tasting 2004 Zen of Zin. If you can't find that, buy Jacobs Creek 2004 Reserve Merlot as we'll have some of that around the studio. Oh, and we'll talk about home winemaking, too.

Bring your favorite Ice Wine to this show and we'll talk about how it's made.

Join us tonight to taste Columbia Crest Merlot and to talk about home winemaking and wine judging. We also explore the event that changed the world for Merlot drinkers (we now get much higher quality for the price) and we introduce a new, non-French sponsor.

Bring your Rosenblum Zinfandel to tonight's internet wine tasting and we'll share the results of the recent amateur winemaking competition. We'll also talk about malolactic fermentation and other wine questions.

Report on the Cabernet grapes in process and a virtual wine tasting of Clos du Bois 2003 Cabernet - Sonoma County.

Learn all about decanting. Experience the decanting experiment and decide for yourself how to practice. Bring your Robert Mondavi Private Selection Cabernet Sauvignon to our next virtual wine tasting.

In this episode, we discuss the biggest mistake virtually all home winemakers make. Plus we share wine news about a likely fraud involving the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. Bring your J. Lohr Seven Oaks 2002 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon to our virtual wine tasting.

This week's live show will be on Wednesday. Grab a bottle of YellowTail Shiraz and join us for week two of our virtual wine tasting. We talk all about how wine yeast is produced.

The Cellar Dwellers talk to Mike Hockenberry about making sparkling wine (AKA Champagne) at home. Be sure to bring your bottles of Ravenswood Vintner's Reserve (2003 or 2004) to this episode as we'll do a virtual wine tasting and compare notes.

Join "Clink" (Dave Nelsen) and "Drink" (The Other Guy) as they discuss corks, cork history, more idoms, corking, "corked" wine (TCA) and, as usual, a variety of random stuff.

In this episode, Dave Nelsen and The Other Guy (TOG) talk about and actually demonstrate racking. For the record, this show was actually recorded a few months ago when the 2005 vintage required more frequent racking.