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Friday 21 October 2016

The Necessary Primary Wine Making Supplies

By Ann West


A wine is one of the most popular types of beverages which are alcoholic and these are made out of fermented grapes. Fermented are made without any added nutrients, water, acids, enzymes, and sugars. These ingredients are not added to avoid the yeast from consuming the sugar and converting it to an ethanol or a carbon dioxide. The yeasts and the grapes have different variations and as a result, wines also are made with different variations.

There are also some kind of wines which are being fermented by using other kinds of fruits and cereals. Wines that are made from plants include various rice wines and fruit wines such as cherries, plums, and as well as hard cider from apples, pomegranate wine, perry from pears, and elderberry wine. Wine making supplies can also be provided even when you are just at home.

Winemaking or vinification is the process that involves the production of wine. Processes will start from selecting the best type of grape up to the product bottling. Aside from grapes, which is the very popular ingredient in the production, other fruits and plants are also used. Mead is a kind of wine which is produced with water and honey as the main ingredients. Winemaking has two classifications, the sparkling and still 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 the fermentation, these are pumped to tanks and the skins are pressed to extract the juices which are remaining. After pressing, these will be blended with a free run wines, but this will depend upon the winemaker. Then after, these are kept warm and the sugars which are remaining are converted to alcohol or carbon dioxide.

Malo lactic conversion is the next process. This is a kind of bacterial process where in malic acids are converted into lactic acids that helps in softening its taste. Sometimes, these are transferred into oak barrels for it to be matured in a period of several weeks or months. Oak aromas and tannin may be imparted to it during 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.

There are many different kind of variations that are very similar in its quality but differs on how it is being produced. The quality may depend on the attributes of the materials used and not on the vinification steps. The sparkling types such as the champagne includes a secondary fermentation that would take place after it is bottled.

Sweet type fermentation happens before the conversion of sugar to ethanol. Fermenting this is through chilling and adding sulphur and some additives for the removal of bacteria and of yeast. Concentration of sugar will be increased in this step.




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