How Wine is Made
By Stacy Slinkard, About.com Guide
Pressing, usually done right after the crush for white grapes and after fermentation for red wine grapes, is basically taking the sticky grape solids left from either the crush or fermentation and squeezing them to get a very thick liquid that can be used to enhance both color and flavor of the presumptive wine to be.
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- The Wine Grape Harvest
- Crushing and Destemming
- Wine Fermentation
- Pressing
- Malolactic Fermentation
- Maturation of the Wine
- Finishing: Fining and Filtration
- Blending Wines
- Bottling Wine
- And That's How Wine is Made!
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