Learn About Wine

Learn About Wine Fermentation To learn about wine you need to know the basics of how wine is made. We’ve covered a lot of territory over the past few months and with the new year upon us we delve even further into our wine knowledge. Now that you know what wine is, where wine grapes are grown, and are familiar with different wine grape varieties, let’s get into some wine making information. I find the most important topic of winemaking is how to turn grape juice into alcohol. If not the most important, then certainly the most rewarding. I like to drink wine. I like when wine makes me dizzy. I like to get really dizzy from drinking wine. And if you want to learn about wine, you have to know at least how wine does that. So, let’s get dizzy with some winemaking basics. While wine has been around for more than 5,000 years, the process through which wine is made has only been understood for a little over 160 years, since Louis Pasteur in 1850 discovered that yeasts convert sugar to alcohol. This process of converting sugar to alcohol is a wholly natural and organic process called fermentation. [...]

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