Making Wine - questions and answers
Skin fermentation
2. What is must and what does it contain? Freshly prest grape juice
3. What is the proper time to pick the grapes? Acid and sugar level are on peack levels
4. How do under and over ripe grapes affect the final product? They affect flavor, color
and acid levels
5. Why is sulfite added in minute amounts immediately after crushing? To prevent
fermentation prematureli
6. What is maceration and what happens during this period? It gives wine it´sbody and
color.
7. What is malic acid converted into during the final stage of primary fermentation and
how does it affect the wine? Lactic acid and garbonic gas
8. What happens during pressing? It ´ s doing wine softer and rounder
9. What happens if you postpone pressing the must for too long? Wine can take verry
unplesent taste and aroma
10. What is elevage and how does it effect the wine? Clarification, incidental oxidation
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