Chapter 5-Table 1 Flashcards
The process of breaking open the grape berries and allowing the juice to flow.
Crushing
The process of allowing contact between grape skins and grape juice before fermentation starts
Cold Soak
The process of separating the grape juice from the skins and other solids
Pressing
Grape juice, or a mixture of juice and solids, that is destined to be fermented into wine
Must
Considered to be the highest quality juice in the batch
Free Run
Italian term for “Pomace Brandy”
Grappa
Adding sugar to the juice/juice mixture before fermentation——
Chaptalization
French term for “juice settling”——
Debourbage
Number of liters in a 60-gallon barrel
225
Typical strain of yeast used for winemaking
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Type of fermentation carried out by lactic bacteria
Malolactic fermentation
Type of ester, created by MLF, that smells “buttery”
Diacetyl
Term used for expired yeast cells and other solid matter in a newly fermented wine——
Lees
The process of stirring the dead yeas cells and other solid matter into a wine while aging
Batonnage (Lees Stirring)
A gentle form of clarification that uses gravity, allowingsolids to sink to the bottom of the container.
Racking