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The Sperm & Egg part of Wine's Life - September 21, 2024

If there is a lifecycle to wine (and there is!), today was that most auspicious of meetings.

Sperm meet Egg. Yeast meet Must.

An early morning stroll through fog-shrouded vineyards grabbing a sample of grapes to set a baseline for maturation, led to a later-morning moment of creation.

I take you through the process of preparing a specific yeast strain and the pitching of that yeast into a fermenter in order to start (in a “controlled” chaos sort of way) the life of a wine.

That moment is an absolute turn-on, by the way.

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