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.

A wine also has many different kinds that are fermented by the use of some kind of cereals and fruits. A wine which is made of plant includes various types of the rice wines and the fruit wines which includes plums, cherries, and also pomegranate wines, elderberry wines, hard cider from the apples, and perry from the pears. Wine making supplies may also be used when making a home made beverage 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.

The following paragraphs is about the processes of production. The first process are the bringing of grapes to the winery after they are harvested. In the winery, these are prepared for primary fermentation. When fermenting, yeasts are added first or may occur either naturally or coming from air. Fermentation process usually lasts for up to 3 weeks.

After the step for fermentation, the fruits are pumped into tanks and for extracting the remaining juices, skins are being pressed. After the pressing, the skins are blended with the free run wines but this process will be depending on winemakers. The next step is keeping it warm and remaining sugars are converted to carbon dioxide or to alcohol.

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.

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.

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.

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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