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2. Glossary of winemaking terms - Wikipedia

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   Wine packaged in a bag usually made of flexible plastic and protected by a box, usually made of cardboard. The bag is sealed by a simple plastic tap. Brettanomyces A wine spoilage yeast that produces taints in wine commonly described as barnyard or band-aids. Brix/Balling A measurement of the dissolved sucrose level in a wine Brouillis

3. Barrel - Wikipedia

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   Wine barrels typically come in two hoop configurations. An American barrel features six hoops, from top to center: head- or chime hoop , quarter hoop and bilge hoop (times two), while a French barrel features eight, including a so-called French hoop , located between the quarter- and bilge hoops (see "wine barrel parts" illustration).

4. Screw cap (wine) - Wikipedia

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   A screw cap is a metal, normally aluminium, cap that screws onto threads on the neck of a wine bottle, generally with a metal skirt down the neck to resemble the traditional wine capsule ("foil"). A layer of plastic (often PVDC ), cork , rubber , or other soft material is used as wad to make a seal with the mouth of the bottle.

5. Drum hardware - Wikipedia

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   Casings are found on nearly all modern drums. The number of casings a drum has can vary from drum to drum and manufacturer to manufacturer. A drum can have as few as six casings and as many as twelve. Tension rods, also known as tuning screws, are threaded bolts that are placed around the rim of a drum and screw into the casings.

6. Oak (wine) - Wikipedia

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   Oak wine barrels. Oak is used in winemaking to vary the color, flavor, tannin profile and texture of wine. It can be introduced in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods, or as free-floating chips or staves added to wine fermented in a vessel like stainless steel.

7. Drum (container) - Wikipedia

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   The measure of 42 US or wine gallons corresponds to a wine tierce (third-pipe). A wine barrel, or 1 ⁄ 8 tun, measures 31.5 US gallons (26.2 imp gal; 119.2 L). Applicable standards include: ISO 15750-1:2002. Packaging — Steel drums — Part 1: Removable head (open head) drums with a minimum total capacity of 208 L, 210 L, and 216.5 L

8. Finings - Wikipedia

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   Bentonite Fining of Juice and Wine, by Bruce Zoecklein, Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, pub. 463-014, 1988; Common Wine and Beer Finings; Colloidal stabilisation of beer, The Brewer International, Jan 2002; Fining Agents for Wine Archived 2006-09-13 at the Wayback Machine, by J.R. Morris and G.L. Main, Proceedings of the 14th NM ...

9. Secondary fermentation (wine) - Wikipedia

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   When the base wine (or cuvee) has been produced from single grape varietals or a blend, the wine is bottled with a mixture of yeast and fresh sugar known as the "liqueur de tirage". This secondary fermentation, also known as bottle fermentation, is the process that makes the wine "bubbly" due to the containment of carbon dioxide which is ...