| Many of us love wine and enjoy the taste but | | | | in a new container to mature.Wine gets its color in |
| many people really don't know exactly how wine | | | | much the same way it gets its taste, from the |
| is created. While almost any fruit juice can be | | | | grapes that are used but it is by allowing the skins |
| used to make wine, the vast majority of wine is | | | | of the grapes soak in the juice that creates the |
| made from grapes.The ingredient that makes the | | | | color. In fact nearly all grape juice is nearly |
| difference between simple grape juice and wine is | | | | colorless. The longer the skins are allowed to soak |
| of course yeast. One interesting little tidbit that | | | | in the juice, the darker the color of the wine. |
| most people don't know is that there is actually | | | | Believe it or not Champagne is which comes from |
| enough yeast in the air around us to turn juice | | | | black grapes is made white by not allowing the |
| into wine if an unopened bottle of grape juice is | | | | skins of the grapes to have any contact with the |
| left out long enough, though it wouldn't necessarily | | | | juice.The taste of each individual variety of wine is |
| be something you would really want to drink!The | | | | determined predominately by the varying factors |
| process of fermentation is a result of yeast | | | | in each variety of grape. Every type of grape |
| consuming the sugar in grape juice. The wine | | | | produces different aromas and flavors depending |
| industry chooses the yeast used in the | | | | upon the soil, climate, and the type of |
| fermentation process from numerous strains that | | | | grape.Winemakers also influence the taste of the |
| are raised exclusively for winemaking. The | | | | wine by altering the temperature and by the |
| particular strain of yeast used along with the | | | | yeast that they choose during the fermentation |
| temperature during the fermentation process also | | | | process. The containers that the wine is stored in |
| determines some of the taste of the wine.The | | | | have a lot to do with the taste as well with oak |
| yeast spores reproduce continually until there in | | | | barrels being the container of choice for many |
| no longer any sugar left to consume during the | | | | winemakers.There are so many different varieties |
| fermentation process. It is during this event that | | | | of wines available that one would be hard pressed |
| the alcohol content and carbon dioxide is created. | | | | to find and taste them all in a lifetime but it would |
| The yeast falls to the bottom of the container | | | | be fun to try!Gregg Hall is a consultant for online |
| once all the consumable sugar is gone and the | | | | and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida. |
| wine is then taken from the container and placed | | | | |