Taste the Rainbow Color is a cue to style and age. Young, fresh, light-bodied white wines will have a green or straw tint. Oak-aged and fuller-bodied whites are gold or deep yellow. Deep purple-red or light ruby red…
Feeling Foggy This Morning? Wines are commonly filtered before bottling to remove dead yeast cells and bits of grape. This results in what consumers generally expect – a clear, unfoggy wine – and also stabilizes it to avoid…
A Fancy Name for Flowers Floraison: The flowering of the grapevines near the end of spring
Sometimes Younger Is Better In Spain, wines might be labeled with words that indicate their age. For example, “Joven” means “young,” and these wines should be drunk within the year of production to enjoy their fresh flavors.
Desperately Seeking a Successful, Stable…Wine Malolactic fermentation is not always carried out in white wine production; however, it is almost always induced when producing red wines to reduce acidity, add complexity, and produce a more stable wine.
