Winery Keywords Flashcards
What is Fermentation?
Is the chemical process by Which molecules such as sugars are broken down anaerobically.
Yeasty converts
Sugars > alcohol )
Alcohol > heat and acids )
what is Maturation?
is the process of maturing fermented wine makes them ready for drinking.
What is the use of Oak maturation?
It’s used to soften the tannins and imparts complex secondary flavour (vanilla, smoke, cedar) and contributing to body.
What is tannins?
Tannins are substance found mainly in plants leaves, stems, bark ** grapes skin and inner seeds** that create a drying, rubbing sensation on your tongue.
What’s is Sancerre?
Sancerre is Sauvignon blanc.
What is Flor?
Is a natural yeast layer formed during maturation in sherry wines.
It is needed to make Amontillado sherry.
What is a screwcap?
An outside bottle closure.
Aluminium closure rolled to the bottle neck.
What is the temperature of fermentation for the red wine?
It’s 20 to 32 degrees.
What is chaptalisation?
Is the addition of sugars into the wine to increase the alcohol level in wine.
Raise In alcohol.
Food paring
Sweet food makes wine to taste?
More drying and better, more acidic and fruity.
Food paring
What is umami taste?
Is one of the core taste which includes sweet, salty, sour and bitter
What is umami means?
Is means essence of deliciousness.
Food paring
What does salt makes wine taste like?
Less dry and bitter, less acidic more fruity more body.
Food paring
What does acidic makes wine taste like?
Less drying and bitter, less acidic more sweet and fruity.
Food paring
What does chilli makes wine taste like?
Chilli increases high concentration of alcohol in wine leading to burning sensation and body.
What is cork Taint?
Cork taint is when wine tast complete off caused by the chemical known as TCA ( trichloroanisole ) the main source of the is contaminated cork and for this reason wine affected with TCA are referred to as corked.
What does the terminology botrytis/noble rot mean?
It’s a fungus that affects the grapes during growing season opening holes due to changes of weather fog and heat.
Concentrate grape sugars and the result is a sweet wine.
Red Wine fault
What happens when wine is in cold condition?
It slowdown ageing.
What does heat does to the wine?
It cooks the wine.
White wine fault
What does sweetness does to the wine?
It’s make the wine rich.
What is complexity?
All flavours from primary and second are well exposed in the palate.
What happens when Harvesting in a cool climate?
Less alcohol
Light body
Less tannins
More acidity
What happens when Harvesting in a warm climate?
More alcohol ( high sugars )
Fuller body
More tannin’s
Medium acidity
Where is Grenache mostly planted in France?
Chateauneuf-du-Papa that’s where we receive complexity highly high body most most 60% dominant. Leather, dark fruity and meat
Cotè de Rhône as well mostly blended with Syrah.
Where does maturation takes place?
It’s takes place in a vessels made from oak?
The typical order for red winemaking is?
- Crushing
- Alcohol fermentation
- drainage
- Pressing
- Storage or Maturation
- Packing
What is maceration?
Meceration is the wine process the phenolic materials of the grape; tannins, colour and flovour compounds are unleashed from the grape skins, seeds and stem into the must.
