Creating Wine Styles

Learning the rules of modern enology normally involves a degree program at a university in a 2-4 year program.  Clark instead teaches a six part online class that boils down the basics into 16 hours called Fundamentals of Modern Wine Chemistry that has received rave reviews from over 4,500 winemakers since 1984.  In addition, you will need to make smart choices about lab equipment and someone on your team needs to get trained on the many nuances how to perform analytical methods repeatably.

Postmodern Winemaking, Wine & Spirits Magazines 2013 Book of the Year, is Clark’s introduction to departures from the modern view, which is designed to make clean, mediocre wine, presenting in practical language a suite of useful skills through which great wines can be made.  Once your house is in order, plan on a few years for the acquisition and full implementation of these skills.

As this process takes place, an experienced winemaker will notice connections behaviors of her grapes, her wines, the microbiome of her cellar and the desires of her customers relevant to her unique situation.  In the end, the goal is a coherent vision that a single winery alone owns and for which there is no competition.