WINE VOCABULARY, STEP BY STEP - 13

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My impression is that a lot of wine critics sound like a doctor. Using wine terms if everybody knows them. To understand this better, I will take you, in the coming time, step by step through those words in a normal way.

By AD Wines, Dannis Apeldoorn

From A to Z —> E

Extraction

The processes and main choices involved in making red and rosé wine is extraction. The key to red winemaking is the successful extraction of the colour and tannin from the skins of black grapes, which is achieved by including the skins in the fermentation vessels. This has two important consequences. First, there are considerably more options to consider before, during and after fermentation than is the case in white winemaking. Second, pressing happens after fermentation and not before. 

So you can say whole grapes into the vessel(-s), starting fermentation. When fermentation is finished press softly and leave the skin short, in contact with the young wine and you have rosé.

When you want to make a red wine, start the same. Whole grapes into vessel(-s), starting fermentation. When fermentation is finished press and leave the skins longer in contact with the young wine and you get red wine with more colour and tannin structure.

Fermentation 43-44-48-55-56-58-59-60-61-63-173-174-180-185-191

Winemaking is a process that starts with grapes and ends with wine. After the harvest, grapes are processed and prepared for alcoholic fermentation, at which point the yeast (eat and digest) convert the sugars in the grape juice to alcohol and CO2. But this process you have options how to do it. 

* With oxygen in winemaking or without.

-Without oxygen can only happen in closed concrete and or stainless steel tanks.

-Oxygen during winemaking happens in wooden barrels or vessels, open concrete tanks, amphora eggs or open stainless steel tanks.

*Oxygen during maturation or without.

-Oxygen during the maturation can happen in wooden barrels or vessels, open tanks of concrete, amphora eggs or open stainless steel tanks.

-Without oxygen, the maturation happens in closed concrete tanks or closed stainless steel tanks. All the others has pores. 

The following week we continue with the letter - F.

Next week, same day, Saturday, and same time, 9:30 am CET, the next two words.