Have you made a batch of wine, and the instructions of what you were supposed to do didn't really match what your wine did? That's because the principle and practice of wine making aren't always identical.

No matter how well you follow the instructions and how careful you are with your measuring, sometimes a wine doesn't turn out as delicious as it did the last time you made it. In principle, if you make wine with great grapes, you should get great wine, and if you make wine with not the best quality grapes or juice, you aren't going to get a great wine. But sometimes that doesn't always work out that way.

One way for you to understand both the principle and practice of wine making is to keep a wine making journal. This is a great way to troubleshoot your wine in the future. For example, if you see problems with fermentation that is too slow, you can look back to the other batches and see if this has ever happened to you. Maybe you want to substitute ingredients, instead of making the recipe with strawberries, you're going to replace a portion with some raspberries that you have in your garden. When you write down the substitutions you can easily recreate the same recipe again if you taste it and love the results.

Sure, if all things go perfectly, the principle and practice of wine making should be the same, but usually it isn't. To help remedy this problem, why not keep a journal to learn from your mistakes and make sure that you don't forget the best remedies?