| Wine making has been done with just two | | | | color and type of grape used in making it. Did you |
| ingredients for centuries: juice from grapes and | | | | know that almost all grape juice is almost clear, or |
| yeast. Many fruit juices have been used over the | | | | maybe a little golden in color, even the black |
| years as well, but grapes are by far the most | | | | grapes. The wine the wine absorbs the color from |
| popular. Yeast creates the wine making magic. | | | | the grapes is by soaking the skins in the juice |
| Many types of yeast have been grown, many for | | | | while it is fermenting. You can even make a white |
| just the purpose of making wine. Yeast is a living | | | | wine from black grapes if you remove the skins |
| organism that uses sugar from the grape juice | | | | before the color is soaked out of them. This is |
| for it's energy. This reaction is called fermentation, | | | | how Champagne is made. By raising the amount |
| and is how wine is actually made. | | | | of time the grape skins stay you will enhance the |
| During the fermentation process yeast spores will | | | | color of the wine. The longer you leave the skins |
| multiply rapidly until all of the available grape juice | | | | in, the darker the wine will become. |
| sugar has been consumed. The sugars used during | | | | Many things influence the taste of wine, even |
| this process are turned into carbon dioxide and | | | | though there are very few ingredients used. Of |
| alcohol. The yeast will also affect the taste of the | | | | course the most important is the type of grape |
| wine depending on the variation of yeast used | | | | used. Every variety of grape has it's own unique |
| and the temperature used during the | | | | flavor, color, smell and texture. Even the condition |
| fermentation. Once all the sugars have been used | | | | in which the grape was grown will effect the |
| the yeast will filter to the bottom of the container | | | | flavor of the grape, and of course effect the |
| used for the fermentation. The wine is removed | | | | flavor of the wine. The soil and the temperature |
| from the container and stored elsewhere for | | | | during the growing season will effects making |
| bottling. | | | | wine. |
| The color of the wine made is dependent on the | | | | |