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1.9 Sweet Wines Flashcards

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Interrupting Fermentation?

A

Removing yeast

Poison yeast (fortify = add alcohol)

Sweet fortified muscat (Greece to Portugal).
Muscat de Beaumes de Venise.

France and Australia.

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Adding a sweet component?

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Add sugar/grape juice.

Sherry.

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Concentration of sugars in the grape?

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Best way to do it. Yeast dies at 15% alcohol.

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4
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Dried grapes?

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Recioto (Italy)

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Noble rot grapes?

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Sauternes (in Graves AC)
Tokaji (Hungary 3-6 rating)
Vouvray AC
Alsace AC

KSABET

Riesling
Semillon (Sauternes and Sauvignon Blanc sometimes).
Chenin Blanc

Honey, dried apricot, rye bread

Weakens skin speeding up evaporation

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Frozen grapes?

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Eiswein (Germany and Austria)

Icewine (Canada)

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