Week 12 [12-18.06.2017] Wine

Wine

I won’t lie if I say that everyone tried many kinds of wine but there is only few of us who really know something more about this beverage. The first wines were made in middle-east part of our globe about 3000 years b.c.  It’s a long time ago, isn’t it? Ok, wine’s history is little boring, let me describe what types of wine we have and how it’s made.

The flavor mainly depends on grapes that are used. There are many factors affecting the quality of the vine like insolation, plants around vine, type of water, etc. Those factors have only a little influence on colour of wine. Color rather depends on the way of making wine. So, how it’s made? At first we have to squeeze the juice out under the pressure plate. In next step we have to initialize fermentation proces. There are several ways to do that, sometimes it’s a natural proces without any interference but sometimes it’s enhanced by chemical addons. Fermentation is very long proces and it mostly takes several weeks. On the end of this process, our wine is filterred few times and bottled. As you propably know, there are three main types of wine colour: white, pink and red. What do you think, is there possibility to make white wine from red grapes, or pink is made by mixing white and red one? Nothing more wrong – white wine is made in the same way like pink or red but in fermentation process we have to remove grape peels. Colour types are easy, there are higher level in case of wine flavour. It’s hard to describe because I’m not an expert so it’s better to watch a short red wine guide. It’s only little percent of wine knowledge. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvWL6_A7uQc

Questions

• Do you like wine? What type of win eis your best?
• Have you ever tried to compare wines in case of taste?
• Have you ever tried to make your own wine?