Cellar Dwellers - Home Winemaking: Recent Episodes
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Dave and the other guy are back on the air with new mics and live sound effects. Call in to talk wine!
Dave and TOG ("the other guy") interview their grape connection "Carl the Grape Man" about the 2009 harvest!
I hope you can join us live tonight. This will likely be our final show. We'll both continue on in home winemaking, but The Other Guy is moving to the Valley of the Sun. We'll miss him here in the 'Burgh.
Join us tonight to taste the Beaulieu Vineyard (BV) Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon - 2005.
Tonight (now on MONDAYS) we'll be tasting Castello di VERRAZZANO Chianti Classico 2004, as well as talking about racking and our soon-to-arrive Chilean grapes (May '08). Please join us for a fun and interesting discussion about home winemaking.
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.
We're back from a week of biking in Italy. Join us to talk about the new winemaking season and tasting Two Brothers 2005 Big Tattoo Red. We'll also discuss numerous winemaking problems from dirty grapes, to too much sugar or acid, to fermentation problems.
Join us to talk about our week's project of bottling last year's wine. We'll be tasting Wild Horse '05 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon. Bring your own bottle to our live show. Also, check our shared Cellar Dwellers site at www.cellardwellers.ning.com.
Join us for more wine tasting and Carl the Grape Man's 2007 grape harvest report! We'll taste the Hogue Cabernet
Tonight we'll be tasting (er... drinking) Raymond Estates Napa Valley 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon. We'll also talk about labels, label paper, inks, and more.
Join us live for a rare WEDNESDAY edition! We'll be tasting Beringer Founders' Estate 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon. Try TalkShoe's new "ShoePhone" to connect in directly with TalkShoe Live - no phone call and no telephone or SkypeOut charges! Sign up here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/protected/shoePhoneSignUp.jsp?pushNav=1&cmd=spsu
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.
Join us for an internet wine tasting of Casillero del Diablo - Carmenere 2005 and more wine news.
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.
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.
Tonight we'll share our bottling tips and a bottle of Valley of the Moon Sangiovese - 2004 or 2005.
For tonights internet wine tasting, bring your DIED; IN THE WOOL 2004 Pinot Noir Unchangable (Canterbury, New Zealand).
Bring your Jacobs Creek Reserve Shiraz to our internet wine tasting! We'll update you on our Peter Brehm (frozen grapes) progress and talk wine & food pairings.
Tonight we'll be sampling Penfolds "Thomas Hyland" 2004 Shiraz. Please join us for this internet wine tasting!
Continuing with last week's show, the Malbec grapes from Peter Brehm have arrived and we're ready to start a batch of wine. Join us in the process. Also, tonight's internet wine tasting will be of a super-premium 1961 Bordeaux. As these are quite rare, we aren't specifying a specific choice - bring any 1961 Bordeaux that you have handy.
The Malbec grapes from Peter Brehm have arrived and we're ready to start a batch of wine. Join us in the process. Also, tonight's internet wine tasting will be of a super-premium 1961 Bordeaux. As these are quite rare, we aren't specifying a specific choice - bring any 1961 Bordeaux that you have handy.
In this pre-recorded episode, we continue to enjoy our LINDEMANS Bin 50 2004 Shiraz. We discuss making wine with frozen grapes from Peter Brehm and we review all of the equipment that will be required.
Tonight we discuss making wine with frozen grapes from Peter Brehm and we share a bottle of LINDEMANS Bin 50 2004 Shiraz. Please join us for our internet wine tasting, some learning, and some laughs.
We're exploring the ins and outs of making wine from frozen grapes, specifically from Peter Brehm Vineyards.
We're exploring the ins and outs of making wine from frozen grapes, specifically from Peter Brehm Vineyards.
Dave and The Other Guy (TOG) are back after a long holiday break! For tonight's internet wine tasting we'll be comparing a $3 box of Vendange California Shiraz to a $49 bottle of Stag's Leap 2004 Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon. There's also plenty of wine news to review including the Top 10 Fat Bastard Awards.
In this episode we'll discuss your favorite turkey recipes (for US Thanksgiving) and best wine pairings (Zin, Syrah, other??). We'll taste a nouveaux beaujolais for our internet wine tasting.
Sometime 'round Monday night we'll figure out what this show is about. Check back then. Our internet wine tasting this week will be of Cotes Du Rhone - Parallele "45". Grab your own bottle and compare notes with us.
It's Cellar Dwellers Home Winemaking Halloween Edition. We discuss the 4 most common wine defects, how to detect them, and how to avoid them. For our internet wine tasting tonight, we share a 2002 Alder Brook Old Vine Zinfandel from Dry Creek Valley. Join us LIVE!!!
Oak pioneer Pier Benci joins us to talk about oak. Listen and you'll never use barrels again. This week's internet wine tasting is of Korbel Brut Rose "champagne".
Report on the Cabernet grapes in process and a virtual wine tasting of Clos du Bois 2003 Cabernet - Sonoma County.
This year's home winemaking begins with 850 lbs of Cabernet and 70 lbs of Grenache. We do a virtual winetasting of two grades of BV Cabernet.
Join us for a live blending of various homemade wines and, of course, another virtual wine tasting. This week's selection is Robert Mondavi Cabernet - Private Selection.
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.
Join us for our new streamlined show format and the next virtual winetasting - bring your bottle of Chateau Ste Michelle - Columbia Valley SYRAH - 2002
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.
In this episode, Dave and T.O.G. discuss various grape problems including too much sugar, molds, early fermentation, and such. They also do a final sampling of the 2005 Syrah and decide whether it's time to bottle.
What do you do when you have grapes with too little (or too much) acid? We discuss the 4 types of acid, how to measure it, and how to adjust it.
In this episode, we have fun drinking the wine we've made. We also share a bottle of Richard's Pinot Gris (from New Zealand), and talk about wine glasses, decanters, and other related wine stuff.
In this episode, we discuss different choices in labels, labeling software, printers (for non-water-soluble ink), and label art. We also talk about how T.O.G. got his name.
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, we're starting down the home stretch for this year's wine production. Talk turns to final SO2 adjustment, bottling, and labeling. As usual, there's some wine history and more cliches and idioms.
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.
Home winemaking step 8 - All about barrels, oak chips and glass. New idioms, malo-lactic fermentation, and more wine history, too.
Dave Nelsen and The Other Guy (TOG) talk for an hour about varieties of yeast, inoculation, and fermentation, which together comprise step 5 of their home winemaking process. They also get deeper into the history of grapes and wine and how they came to the New World (initially via Mexico). As usual, Dave and TOG stumble into a number of idioms.
Dave Nelsen and The Other Guy talk for an hour (unbelievable because it hardly takes that long to actually do it) about the fourth step in home winemaking ? adjusting the must. Topics include making a 10% stock solution of potassium metabisulfate, killing stray yeasts, adding or subtracting acid and sugar, and using yeast nutrients and fruit pectin. The two discuss the origins of more idioms including blackmail, mums the word, and close but no cigar.
Dave Nelsen and The Other Guy discuss the third of fourteen steps for making award-winning wine at home - crushing and destemming your grapes. They also wax eloquent on the evolution of grapes, the discovery of wine, the use of wood and resins in wine, and the ideal temperature for drinking red wine (it is colder than you likely imagine).
Dave Nelsen and The Other Guy dive into the second of fourteen steps for making award-winning wine at home - finding good grapes. They discuss everything from acidity and sugar content, to weights and prices. Dave explains the origins of the expressions (to) toast and the whole nine yards, while The Other Guy talks about in the can.
Dave and The Other Guy dive into the first of fourteen steps for making award-winning wine at home. They discuss everything from the crusher/destemmer to bung hole plugs. Dave talks about his three favorite pieces of equipment, while The Other Guy drinks Pinot Noir.
Dave Nelsen and The Other Guy (TOG) provide a beginning-to-end overview of the home winemaking process. As various reviewers have said: "laugh and learn".