Learn About Wine Production Continuing with step three of red wine making, let’s learn about Pressing, Secondary Fermentation and Clarification in red wine production. Largely today, red wines are pressed either slightly before fermentation finishes or when the wine reaches its intended dryness level. Pressing enables all the juice to be extracted while allowing solids [...]
Learn About Red Wine Production: Part I
January 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
Learn About Wine Production Making red wine is more or less the same process as making white wine, but with some slight variations. For one, skins are kept in contact with the juice during fermentation until the desired color of the wine is reached. Grape skins, it turns out, contain enough dye to give red [...]
Learn About White Wine Production: Part III
January 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
Ok, here we are at the last of the Learn About White Wine Production series. If you missed the other posts, we talked about crushing and pressing the grape clusters, prepping and settling the wine must, acidification and chaptalization. Then we went into primary and secondary fermentation, racking, sur lie aging, Bâttonage, and sulfur adjustment [...]
Learn About White Wine Production: Part II
January 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Let’s continue to learn about white wine production, shall we? If you missed the first part of this series you can find it here: Learn About White Wine Production: Part I On to Primary Fermentation. Once the wine must is prepped, settled, acidified and/or chaptalized, it is ready for fermentation. It is typical today for [...]
Learn About White Wine Production
January 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Learn About White Wine Production If you’ve been following along as I relate everything you need to learn about wine online, you may have noticed the recent excessive bold text lately. Simple reason, Bolding certain words seems to make me rank higher for the keyword phrase learn about wine. This is something I learned from [...]
Learn About Wine Fermentation
January 11, 2009 By 2 Comments
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