What is Up with Wine Making?
Have you ever wanted to try wine making? Well it is a long and hard process that most people try and try again to make their own but they don’t use the right technique or the right type of grape for their wine. Wineries all across the world started with just one person who decided to become a wine-maker. Wine making is a long process that people should be careful when attempting it. If you mess up just one step it can jeopardize the entire batch of wine.
What is the Process of Wine Making?
To start the wine making process, the grapes are harvested and crushed. Depending on which part of the grapes you use, you will get a different type of wine such as a red or white wine. The quality of the wine is usually determined by the quality of the grape, if there is a high-quality grape it will usually make a high-quality wine. After the grapes have been grown and harvested from the vine, they are ready to be crushed. Crushing is primarily breaking the skin of the grape.
In smaller wineries this can be done by using bare feet, but in larger wineries there are large machines that help crush the wine. Afterwards, the wine has been well-crushed it is time to add the yeast to start the first phase of fermentation. During the first phase of fermentation the yeast converts the sugars in the wine to alcohol, which gives it its primary taste. Now it is time for the pressing of the wine. This is the process where pressure is applied to the wine to help separate different parts of the wine such as the skins and the juice. This helps separate the wine ingredients and when done different creates different types of wine. Now it is time to put the wine through hot and cold extremes.
The cold extremes causes tartrates(wine crystals) to be removed from the wine and to be left behind in the bottles. During the hot extremes unstable proteins are removed from the wine preventing precipitation. Next is the long 2nd phase of fermentation. This phase can take up to six months and this is a much slower fermenting process. The wine is put in oak barrels or sometimes stainless steal ones to be stored for fermenting. After the fermentation and aging is complete, they blend the wine to desired taste, create a wine bottle, and then fill the bottle with wine. The wine is now ready to sell and ready to be enjoyed by many people.
Have you ever wanted to try wine making? Well it is a long and hard process that most people try and try again to make their own but they don’t use the right technique or the right type of grape for their wine. Wineries all across the world started with just one person who decided to become a wine-maker. Wine making is a long process that people should be careful when attempting it. If you mess up just one step it can jeopardize the entire batch of wine.
What is the Process of Wine Making?
To start the wine making process, the grapes are harvested and crushed. Depending on which part of the grapes you use, you will get a different type of wine such as a red or white wine. The quality of the wine is usually determined by the quality of the grape, if there is a high-quality grape it will usually make a high-quality wine. After the grapes have been grown and harvested from the vine, they are ready to be crushed. Crushing is primarily breaking the skin of the grape.
In smaller wineries this can be done by using bare feet, but in larger wineries there are large machines that help crush the wine. Afterwards, the wine has been well-crushed it is time to add the yeast to start the first phase of fermentation. During the first phase of fermentation the yeast converts the sugars in the wine to alcohol, which gives it its primary taste. Now it is time for the pressing of the wine. This is the process where pressure is applied to the wine to help separate different parts of the wine such as the skins and the juice. This helps separate the wine ingredients and when done different creates different types of wine. Now it is time to put the wine through hot and cold extremes.
The cold extremes causes tartrates(wine crystals) to be removed from the wine and to be left behind in the bottles. During the hot extremes unstable proteins are removed from the wine preventing precipitation. Next is the long 2nd phase of fermentation. This phase can take up to six months and this is a much slower fermenting process. The wine is put in oak barrels or sometimes stainless steal ones to be stored for fermenting. After the fermentation and aging is complete, they blend the wine to desired taste, create a wine bottle, and then fill the bottle with wine. The wine is now ready to sell and ready to be enjoyed by many people.
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