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The ideas involved with viticulture and oenology.
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The ideas involved with viticulture and oenology There are two major types of wine, red wine and white wine. The major differences stem from the fermentation process, or rather the conditions this takes place under. But there are the vital steps in the production of each wine that are common. The first is rather obvious in that as wine is fundamentally produced from grapes, the grapes are picked off their vines, then stemmed and finally crushed. The skins of the grapes need to be broken in order to free the juice, as the yeast can't effectively penetrate the wall to get to the juice. The resulting mixture from the crushing of the grape berries (minus the stems) is called must- the juice, skins, seeds and the pulps. The acidity of the juice, and also its sugar content need to be determined, as this gives an indication of the strength and volume of the...
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