Level 4 · Lesson 7
Blending, Clarification, and Stability
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Glossary
Terms that have earned their place
- Blending
- Combining selected wine components to achieve an intended balance or style.
- Fining
- Using a treatment that binds or removes selected wine components before separation.
- Filtration
- Passing wine through a medium to remove material according to the method’s properties.
Keep digging
Sources and further reading
- Ridge — 2023 Estate Chardonnay technical sheet (PDF)
- Ridge — 2023 Estate Chardonnay vintage and winemaking data
- Krug — The Art of Blending (producer process account)
- Krug — Individuality (producer process account)
Sources support the teaching model; they do not make promotional regional descriptions universal bottle guarantees.