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2025/11/24

Inexpensive Wines and High-Value Wines: A Winemaker’s Perspective

In contemporary society, many people wish to enjoy good food and beverages while preferring to avoid excessively high prices. Finding something delicious at an affordable price is satisfying, and discovering value beyond the price point is even more grati …

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2025/11/18

Winery Perspectives | Balancing Flavor and Intervention

The state of phenolic compounds is one of the most critical considerations in red wine production. The quantity and condition of phenolic compounds in wine profoundly influence its flavor profile. When phenolic compounds are present in insufficient quanti …

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2025/11/6

The Outside World is Filthy

The Reality of Microbial Contamination How many of you have ever heard the term “microbial contamination”? Working in winemaking, albeit in a small corner of the world, one encounters various challenges. Wine often carries an image of luxury and high soci …

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2025/8/19

Wine Minerality | Exploring the True Nature of “Taste,” “Aroma,” and “Sensation” in Mineral Character

When drinking wine, there is an expression you will inevitably encounter somewhere along the way: “mineral character” or “minerality.” Even those who haven’t heard these terms yet will almost certainly encounter them in the relatively near future, as they …

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2025/7/29

The Environment Surrounding Winemaking | Is There Really Anything That Remains Unchanged?

The tasting method of comparing wines from different harvest years made from the same grape variety harvested from the same vineyard is called “vertical tasting.” This vertical tasting serves two purposes. The first purpose is to compare wines from new an …

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2025/7/20

Can Yeast Constitute Terroir? Tracing the Genealogy of Genetics and Distribution

Various factors are considered important elements that contribute to the taste of wine. Among these, how significant would you position yeast as an element? In wine production, yeast plays an extremely important role. This is universally acknowledged. How …