Learn About Wine

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and heat. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine.

Wines are also classified through vinification methods, or the process in which the juice of various types of grapes are converted into wine through fermentation.

Although there are hundreds of different varieties and winemaking styles, there are 5 main classifications of wine, all of which have their own unique vinification styles.

1. Red Wine

Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties. The actual color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines.

2. White Wine

White wine is a wine that is fermented without skin contact. The colour can be straw-yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-gold. It is produced by the alcoholic fermentation of the non-coloured pulp of grapes, which may have a skin of any colour. White wine has existed for at least 2500 years.

3. Rosé Wine

A rosé is a type of wine that incorporates some of the color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may be the oldest known type of wine, as it is the most straightforward to make with the skin contact method.

4. Sparkling Wine

Sparkling wines have a small amount of intense effervescences. Champagne is the most famous sparkling wine in many regions in the world.

5. Amber Wine

Skin-contact white wine,skin-fermented white wine,amber wine, ororange wineis a type ofwinemade fromwhite winegrapes where the grape skins are not removed, as in typical white wine production, and stay in contact with the juice for days or even months.

6. Fortified Wine

Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added. Many different styles of fortified wine have been developed, including Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatised wine Vermouth.

7. Aromatised Wine

An aromatised wine is a fortified wine or mistelle that has been flavoured with herbs, spices, fruit or other natural flavourings.

8. Table Wine

An unfortified wine containing not more than 14 percent alcohol by volume and usually suitable for serving with food.

9. Dessert Wine

Dessert wines, sometimes called pudding wines, are sweet wines typically served with dessert. There is no simple definition of a dessert wine.

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