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Wine Tasting A Preference For Red Or White

For many of us wine is something of a widely planted grape and probably
mystery and when we are buying wine it originates from Spain. As well as often
comes down to a simple choice between red being used to produce ros wines, it is
and white and what our local supermarket also commonly used as a base for many
has available in its "special offer" bin. blended wines including such well known
But wine really isn't such a mystery at names as Chateauneuf du Pape and Cotes du
all and, in this area at least, a little Rhne.
knowledge can get you a very long way. Blush wine.
The starting point is to understand the Blush wine is sometimes referred to as
different types of wine available and California's version of ros wine and is
here we can divide wines into five main produced in much the same way as ros
groups. wine. In this case however the grape most
Red Wine. often used is the Zinfandal grape which
Red wine is fermented from what many produces a slightly sweet pink wine which
people would refer to as red grapes but also shows a somewhat blue color. The
which are in fact more correctly named Zinfandal grape originates in Croatia but
black grapes. In the case of red wine the has been grown widely in the US for more
grapes are used whole for fermentation, than 150 years now and is considered
that is to say complete with skin and indigenous to California.
pips, and it is the skin which gives the White wine.
wine its red color. Believe it or not white wine can be made
There are a wide variety of black grapes from either white or black grapes, as the
available each with its own distinctive juice from either grape is colorless and
flavor which is derived principally from it is only the skin of the black grape
the soil and climate in the region where that gives red wine its color.
the grapes are grown. This, together with The flavors available across the range of
the winemaker's art of mixing, allows us white wines vary tremendously according
to enjoy a range of red wines from the to the grape used, the winemaker's art
deep blackcurrant color of the and the degree to which different juices
full-bodied and intensely flavored wines are blended to create the finished wine.
produced from the Cabernet Sauvignon Dry white wines often come from grapes
grape to the lighter cherry and raspberry such as Muscadet or Sauvignon Blanc while
taste gained from the Pinot Noir grape. richer fruit-flavored wines are more
Ros wine. likely to be based upon the Chardonnay
Ros wines are again produced from black grape.
grapes but, in this case, the juice is Sparkling wines.
separated off part way through the Sparkling wines, of which Champagne is
fermentation process and at the point at clearly the best known example, are based
which the winemaker determines that the upon a dry white wine. Here the wine is
juice contains sufficient color to give bottled and a solution of sugar and yeast
the finished wine the pink color that he is added before the bottle is sealed. The
is looking for. sugar and yeast solution causes a
Once again the flavor of the finished secondary fermentation and sealing the
wine depends very much on the grape used bottles at the start of this process
for fermentation and some of the finest traps the gas produced by this
ros wines are produced from the Grenache fermentation within the wine to give it
grape. Often thought of as a French its sparkle when the bottle is opened.
grape, Grenache noir is the world's most




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