Producing White Wines Flashcards
Why is chardonnay a good option for inexpensive white wines?
Easily ripens
Restrained varietal character
Why is pinot grigio used in high volume winemaking?
Ripens easy
Restrained varietal character
Normally unoaked
Sufficient acidity
What are common winemaking choices in high volume whites?
Acidification
Clarification
Stainless steel
Colder ferment to preserve fruit
Sulfates to preserve
Rcgm
What are examples of aromatic white grapes?
Sauvignon Blanc
Riesling
Muscat
Gewurztraminer
Torrontes
What are the steps of white wine making
Grapes
Sorting
Desten
Crush
Skin contact
Press
Press juice
Clarification
Fermentation
Rack off gross lees
Malolactic conversion
Newly made wine
Blending
Maturation
Blending
Clarify and stabilize
Packaging
Sale
What are the different ways to make sweet wine?
Stopping fermentation
Adding a sweet component
Concentrate grape sugars
Noble Rot
Drying grapes on the vine
Drying grapes after picking
Freezing grapes
How can sweet wine by stopping ferm be made?
Adding grape spirit
High dose of SO2
Chilling (then filter)
How are sweet wines made through adding a sweet component?
Adding unfriended grape juice (sussreserve)
RCGM can also be added
What is noble rot?
Botrytis affected grapes
What does botrytis need to grow?
Fully ripe grape
Humid misty mornings
Dry sunny afternoons
What is passerillage?
Drying grapes on the vineyards after they have reached full ripeness
What is the passito method?
Healthy harvested grapes, dried and dehydrated to concentrate sugar in grape
What are two early budding grapes?
Chardonnay and pinot gris
What are winemaking choices for non aromatic whites?
Oxygen ingress to allow for aging
Clarification by settling
Every ferm vessel possible
Malo possible as long as it doesn’t damage fruit tones too much
