{"id":989542,"date":"2014-05-03T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acquabonaelba.com\/news-about-the-2014-harvest-and-surroundings\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:28:06","slug":"news-about-the-2014-harvest-and-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acquabonaelba.com\/en\/news-about-the-2014-harvest-and-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"News about the 2014 harvest and surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Winemaking or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid.
\nThe history of wine-making stretches over millennia.
\nThe science of wine and winemaking is known as oenology.
\nA winemaker may also be called a vintner.
\nThe growing of grapes is viticulture and there are many varieties of grapes. <\/p>\n

Winemaking can be divided into two general categories: still wine production (without carbonation) and sparkling wine production (with carbonation \u2013 natural or injected).
\nRed wine, white wine, and ros\u00e9 are the other main categories.
\nAlthough most wine is made from grapes, it may also be made from other plants.
\n(See fruit wine.)
\nOther similar light alcoholic drinks (as opposed to beer or spirits) include mead, made by fermenting honey and water, and kumis, made of fermented mare’s milk. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Crushing is the process when gently squeezing the berries and breaking the skins to start to liberate the contents of the berries.
\nDestemming is the process of removing the grapes from the rachis (the stem which holds the grapes). In traditional and smaller-scale wine making, the harvested grapes are sometimes crushed by trampling them barefoot or by the use of inexpensive small scale crushers.<\/p>\n

These can also destem at the same time.
\nHowever, in larger wineries, a mechanical crusher\/destemmer is used.
\nThe decision about destemming is different for red and white wine making.
\nGenerally when making white wine the fruit is only crushed, the stems are then placed in the press with the berries.
\nThe presence of stems in the mix facilitates pressing by allowing juice to flow past flattened skins.
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