How Copper Fooled Us All
Piero is a Midwest vineyard and winery consultant specializing in cool-climate and cold-climate grape & wine production. He can be reached via email at pierospada.com Intro — Part i Got a hint of burnt rubber smell in...
Author: Piero Spada
Realizing the Aroma Potential Of Cold Hardy Grapes
Giddy up It’s an exciting time in the hybrid grape and wine world because for the first time significant research has been carried out on hybrid grapes and wine in search of defining chemical...
Cue Tannin Binding Now
This article is sponsored by Scott Laboratories. For more information on product offerings, please contact Scott Labs at 800-821-7254 or visit Scott Laboratories. This is the second part of the story about tannins in...
Research On Hybrid Tannins Continues
This article is sponsored by Scott Laboratories. For more information on product offerings, please contact Scott Labs at 800-821-7254 or visit Scott Laboratories. This is the first installment in a two part series about...
Back to Basics: Preventing Rotten Eggs (aka Reduction)
This article is sponsored by Scott Laboratories. For more information on product offerings, please contact Scott Labs at 800-821-7254 or visit Scott Laboratories. ‘This wine smells a bit like rotten eggs to me,” said...
Game Changer Grape is a Little Pearl
The 2014 Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Conference led to the typical dissemination and confluence -or occasional clash- of ideas that makes a conference of this nature so infectious. Although, it has been argued...
Thermovinification for Improved Red Hybrid Wine Quality
This article is sponsored by Scott Laboratories. For more information on their product offerings, please contact Scott Labs at 800-821-7254 or send an email to info@scottlab.com My first year of wine consulting in the Midwest also happened to...
Tannin Additions in Red Hybrid Wines
Tannin is to red wine what acidity is to whites: a backbone. Without either, it is difficult to make a balanced wine. This is one of the first principles I learned about winemaking (from...
Midwest Winemaker Q&A May 2013
This is the second part of the response to a reader question about adjusting SO2. The first part of Piero’s answer appears below in his “March 2013” column and contains helpful background for this...
Midwest Winemaker Q&A
Publisher’s note: This is the second installment of Midwest Wine Press Winemaker Q & A. If you have questions for Milwaukee based winery consultant Piero Spada, please send them to midwestwine@gmail.com February 2013: More...