Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Wine Making Supplies And Equipment

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.

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 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.

The following are processes involved in its production. First, the grapes are bought to the winery after harvesting for the preparation of primary fermentation. During the fermentation, the yeast may be added first or it may just occur naturally from the grapes of from the air. Fermentation often lasts for two to 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 step where in a bacterial process will occur. A malic acid is is converted to a lactic acid during the process. This conversion helps the softening of the taste. At times, these are placed in oak barrels for its maturity, thus, oak aromas and as well as tannin might be imparted.

A Beaujolais nouveau is one of the very popular types that would take several months or even 20 years in its processing. The longer it takes, the better its structure which will help it in containing more acids, tannin, and sugar. For achieving the goals of winemakers, all processes may be combined, but it depends upon the type of grape and its 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.

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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