الثلاثاء، 4 أكتوبر 2016

The Necessary Primary Wine Making Supplies

By Ann West


A wine is one kind of an alcoholic beverage which is made of grapes that are fermented. These grapes were fermented without adding any ingredients such as some enzymes, sugars, water, acids, and other kinds of nutrients. The reason for not adding is because yeasts from the grapes will be consuming the sugars and will convert it to ethanol and carbon dioxide. Grapes and yeasts have many variations, thus, producing many variations of a wine as well.

Other variations of wine are also fermented but by the use of some other fruit or cereal types. The wines which are made out of plants also have many varieties such as rice wines and also fruit wines that include perry from pears, hard cider from apples, elderberry wines, pomegranate wines, cherries, and plums. Some of the wine making supplies are brought also to be used in homes for those people who have the passion of making home made beverages of this type.

Winemaking or often called as vinification is a process of producing wine. It starts from the selection of a grape up to bottling the finished product. Though grapes are mostly used for the production, there may also be some other plants and fruits that may be used. A mead is one type in which one of the primary ingredients aside from water is honey. Winemaking is divided into two categories which are the still production and the sparkling production.

First process, bringing the grapes to a winery after harvesting and preparing it for the next step which is the primary fermentation. In the fermentation step, yeasts are being added or it may occur from grapes or air naturally. This process of fermenting usually lasts for three weeks.

After fermenting, these are being pumped into the tanks and skins will be pressed in order to extract the remaining juices. The pressed skins are then blended with free run wines depending on the winemaker. After, these will be kept warm and all the remaining sugars will be converted into carbon dioxide or alcohol.

Next process is the malo lactic conversion. It is a bacterial process in which the malic acids will be converted to lactic acids which will help in softening the taste. There are times where in these will be transferred to oak barrels for maturing in several weeks or several months. Tannin and oak aromas may also be imparted in this process.

The Beaujolais nouveau is considered as one very popular type that takes up to 20 years for processing. The longer the processing, structure becomes better and better that helps it to contain more sugar, tannin, and acids. Winemakers often combine many processes to achieve their desired goals of taste and style.

Many variations have been made that have similarities when it comes to quality, but it differs on the production. Its quality will more likely depend upon the attributes of materials and not on vinification steps. The champagne, which is an example of the sparkling type includes secondary fermentation and it is being performed after bottling.

The sweet types fermentation is being done before the sugars are converted to ethanol. This is done by chilling it and sulphur and some other additives are added for removing the bacteria and yeast. Also, the concentration of the sugar is increased.




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