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  1. 2,600-year-old Phoenician wine ‘factory’ unearthed in Lebanon

    “The coast of Lebanon was never thoroughly surveyed, and very few sites with Iron Age [Phoenician] remains have been properly excavated,” Sader says. Some similar winema…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanWine #Wine #amphorae #Archaeology #lebanon #Mediterranean #phoenicians #tellel-burak #trade #winepress #winemaking #winery
    diningandcooking.com/2623668/2

  2. Random question for the Fediverse. can anyone recommend a refrasctometer for measuring sugar content (Brix), the use is for measuring honey (17-18%). But would be great if it could be used for beer/wine/alcohol making etc. (which I believe is a different percentage) #refractometer #beekeeping #winemaking #equipment

  3. Bottled honey wine today. 25 750ml bottles, and 2 1.5 liter bottles.

    Grapes from the 100 year old vine. Honey from the bees. 5 gallons from the grapes and 5.5 lbs of honey plus water to top it up and another 1.7 lbs of honey to back sweeten it.

    It tastes pretty good actually, not dry and not sweet.

    More details in the ALT.

    #wine #winemaking #GrowYourOwn #mead #honeywine #homebrewing #alcohol #RedWine

  4. Whew! that was an experience I'd like to not repeat.

    Sitting on the couch jamming to Trampsta, when he let drop one of *those* bass beats, where you feel like the entire universe is throbbing along with him, and B0000M! goes a mead bottle!

    That fucker exploded and blew most of 750ml of mead into a fine peach mist that still hasn't settled out of the air, and glass all over that quarter of the house (open plan kitchen/living room). I think I still haven't seen the EZ-Cap bottle top.

    There were four other bottles from the same vintage that I quickly opened, and each yielded the now expected fountain of peach mead. I managed to save enough from those bottles to make up another bottle and a half.

    The peaches had been bought fresh at the farmers market this spring, were absolutely glorious, and when we ate some the missus insisted we go back and get more so I could use them in a batch of mead.

    I really don't understand how this happened, that mead had been let to sit in the fermenter for a week without making bubble one, after which I stirred air into it vigorously and allowed it to sit another week without it budging.

    I've burped those bottles twice since I bottled, and they just burped - there was no indication of a pending rupture.

    #mead #homebrew #winemaking #fermenting #zymurgy

  5. Vinetur: Champagne’s Billion-Bottle Cellars Get 3D Digital Archive in Landmark Preservation Effort. “The Champagne region is preparing for a significant event on Friday, November 7, in Reims. The Mission Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne will host a charity dinner to support the launch of the CELLARS project. This initiative aims to create a 3D digital archive of the historic Champagne […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/vinetur-champagnes-billion-bottle-cellars-get-3d-digital-archive-in-landmark-preservation-effort/

  6. I racked the wine again yesterday which was day 61, it hasn't cleared up any with time and probably hasn't been fermenting much for a couple of weeks but had enough bubble to make starsan bubbles in the airlock. I added sorbate, degassed it, and today I back sweetened it with 766 grams of pasteurized honey in water that made about a liter total and filled the carboy up to the neck. Added chitosan and maybe it will clear up. Tastes like wine.

    #wine #winemaking #homebrew #fermenting #honey #mead

  7. Two-chamber airlock on a wine barrel. Lets carbon dioxide out and prevents oxygen and dust from getting in. I'm assuming the liquid is water but I've read that beer people sometimes fill it with vodka to kill bacteria (is that necessary?). Château De Pravins, Blace, France. #CarbonDioxide #beaujolais #airlock #winemaking #wine #alcohol #fermentation #oxygen #co2 #france #winery #grapes #gamay

  8. Hi mastodon! I'm Alex. Born in Switzerland, I started coding when I was 9 on an Apple II. That was 40 years ago and I never stopped.
    Graduated from #EPFL then worked in #paloalto at #sun. Then emigrated to #Provence, #France, #wine and #cheese taste better. Worked in #software #startups. Founded a #digitalsignature startup as #ceo for 15y, sold it. Then #stanford #gsb, graduated 2024.
    Woking on a few projects in #ai, #finance and #winemaking.
    married 2 daughters, and I play electric #guitar.

  9. Foot treading wine - tradition, history, romance and for treating athlete's foot!

    This article doesn't mention the antifungal benefits of stomping grapes! Resveratrol, made in grape skins in response to fungal attack, can counter infections of a range of fungi (the phenolic content doesn't hurt either! :-)

    epicure.social/@wineworldnews/

    #Winemaking #Grapes #Resveratrol #Antifungal

  10. ⭐️ Malolactic fermentation affects wine’s texture and flavor, and letting it roll (or not) depends on tradition, fashion, chemistry, and more. My new Wine Science piece for Terroir Review tackles this magnificent microbial process. Enjoy! ⭐️

    terroirreview.com/2023/04/08/m

    #wine #winescience #wineEducation #wineEducator #wineExpert #malolactic #malolacticFermentation #mlf #malo #acidity #lacticAcidBacteria #winelover #winelovers #winemaking #enology

  11. Here’s the first in my new series on wine science topics, which tackles acidity, volatile acidity, and wine’s essential refreshment.

    terroirreview.com/2023/02/23/a

    #wine #science #acidity #enology #viticulture #winemaking #wineEducation