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Amount (in millions of U.S.$) grape growers Andy and Betty Beckstoffer donated to the Center for Wine and Viticulture at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly has one of the largest undergraduate wine and viticulture programs in the world. Nearly 300 students are currently enrolled. Among the many degrees it awards is one covering viticulture, enology, and wine business.

Sediment in wine means the wine is slightly flawed.

Answer: False.

Sediment is not a flaw but rather a natural process that occurs over time. Sediment—molecules of color and tannin that precipitate out of solution—are generally present only in older red wines (10-plus years old) that had a lot of color and tannin to begin with and that were not fined or filtered. You can drink an old wine that has thrown some sediment without decanting it; the sediment is not harmful, just slightly teeth-clinging.

Veraison

The time in summer when grape berries change color signaling the onset of final ripening. White grapes go from green to yellow, and red grapes go from green to red. This past week in the… Continue reading

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