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A Very Simple Introduction To The Major Kinds of Wine Making
While the basics of wine making are really similar there are a quantity of differences depending on the kind of wine you wish to make. Wine making is not only for big companies and wineries as you might make wine from your house on a small scale. There is plenty of small scale equipment to create wine at home over and above kits that offer you with everything you want for making wine.
The most important point of wine making is to convert grape juice into wine which is an alcoholic beverage. This happens due to wine yeast. The yeast needs sugar to grow and as it consumes yeast it produces alcohol. In addition alcohol the yeast will furthermore make carbon dioxide and other flavor compounds. It is the yeast that makes the wine what it is together with all of the varied smells and tastes.
White wine making is very similar to red wine making although there is one major disparity. For white wine the juice is inoculated with yeast and then the juice is fermented into wine. The grapes skins, seeds and stems are all separated from the juice so only the juice is being made into wine. For red wine the skins of the grape are left in the juice, the yeast is added and the juice is fermented into wine. Because the grape skins are in the juice the alcohol that is being produced extracts the color from the grape skins producing a colored, or red, wine.
Sparkling wine also has an additional step. The wine is fermented similar to white wine. Once this still wine is produced there is a second fermentation.
To make wine sparkling you take still wine, so juice that has already been fermented to wine. Then a small amount of juice or sugar and yeast is added and the bottle is corked so the CO2 is trapped in the bottle, hence the sparkling.
Fortified wines also have a different kind of wine making. Fortified wines are sweet wines that have high alcohol. This end product is reached by stopping the yeast fermentation so there is still plenty of sugar left. The high alcohol content comes from the addition of spirits to stop the yeast.
Late harvest wines are made of highly ripe grapes so that they are shriveled and like raisins. This creates juice that has high sugar. The fermentation is stopped before it is done by chilling. In this way the alcohol content is low and the wine is really sweet. There is much more to wine making however what is described above are the main differences between the styles of winemaking you can use.
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