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Summary: How red and white wines are made from grape skins; learn more about wine in this free instructional video.
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Terry Thomas Terry Thomas is a successful entrepreneur in the food and beverage business for almost 40 years.
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Questions & AnswersI’m Terry Thomas. I’m here on ExpertVillage.com to bring you a little about the appreciation of wine. When wine is made the grapes are actually harvested and their brought in and crushed, with the white wines the skins are not left long on the grape juice and thus there are components in the skin that really give a lot of character to the wine. On the reds the skins are left, they’re left in the fermentation and they actually have instruments that break up - the skins float and they have instruments that break up the cap, the big layer of skins and keep them kind of mixed up, stirred up so that a lot of – as the alcohol begins to form from fermentation, it takes a lot out of the skins. The skins again give a lot of character and a lot of tanning to the wine. When a wine is brand new, especially if it has been fermented with some skin, there’s some tanning, a kind of astringency, kind of a – it’s a feel not a taste that you can get in your mouth.
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