Tip #11 Good Wine Starts with Good Winery Hygiene

Todd Henkle

The Vineyard and Winery at Lost Creek

Protect your hard work during harvest by preventing spoilage and faults with good hygiene practices in your winery. Now is a great time to think about your quality control protocols and review our top 10 hygiene tips with your team. We’ll have an ongoing discussion of various hygiene tips and projects throughout harvest and into the coming year.

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For more information on winery hygiene:

Making Cleaning and Sanitation Practical for the Small Commercial Winery, Denise M. Gardner

Press Pad Podcast #9: Winery Sanitation

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Blenheim Vineyards

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Comparing precision, accuracy and cost of titratable acidity testing in the small winery using multiple methods (2024)

Joy Ting & Rebecca Rainbow

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Exploring the sensory impact of juice turbidity in fermentation of Viognier (2024)

Boela Gerber, Jeremy Mersch, Jordan Kennedy

Southwest Mountain Vineyards

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