Red, White, or Pink?

red                            

• made from dark-skinned grapes
• ferment at higher temperatures than white wines
• usually receive aging in barrels
• the amount of time, the type of barrel, and the wood it is made from all affect the wine

white

• made from light-skinned grapes
• has to be treated more carefully than red wine          
• ferment at cooler temperatures than reds

rosé

• made from using the same grape varieties as are used to make red
• 3 ways to make it

            1. macerating (colouring agents in grapes are leached out into the juice of the wine) the red grape must for a few days and fermenting the pale coloured
                juice
            2. fermenting the juice of quickly pressed red wine grapes
            3. fermenting siphoned-off juice from red wine production









sparkling

• usually associated with happy events and celebration
• usually between 8 and 12% alcohol
• most prestigious sparkling wine is champagne
• carbon dioxide is a by-product of fermentation and instead of letting it escape into the air, it is made to dissolve into the wine

(Clueless About Wine by Richard Kitowski and Jocelyn Klemm. 2007.)


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