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The science of wine and winemaking. Off-dry A wine that has the barest hint of sweetness; a slightly sweet wine in which the residual sugar is barely perceptible. Orange wine A white wine with extending skin contact, similar to red wine production. The opposite of a rosé Organic winemaking
A dry wine from a "great growth" vineyard that has been designated as Erste Lage. In many regions this term has been replaced by Grosses Gewächs. Erzeugerabfüllung German term for an estate-bottled wine Extra-Brut A very dry sparkling wine. In Champagne, this is a wine that has received a dosage with between 0-6 grams/liter sugar Extra Dry
Aromatized wine – A fortified wine with added herbs, spices, or flavorings. Dessert wine – A category of sweet wines served with dessert. Fortified wine – Fortified wine is a wine that has had a distilled spirit added to it in order to end fermentation, help preservation, or influence flavor. The addition of additional ethanol kills yeast ...
Specialist cooking wines, liqueurs, vermouths and eaux de vie are widely used by professional chefs to enhance flavour in traditional and modern dishes. [failed verification] [2] These are specially created to be an ingredient in cooking, not a beverage. As well as offering value for money, they have a longer shelf life which avoids wastage.
Wine is a complex mixture of chemical compounds in a hydro-alcoholic solution with a pH around 4. The chemistry of wine and its resultant quality depend on achieving a balance between three aspects of the berries used to make the wine: their sugar content, acidity and the presence of secondary compounds.
The Collins English Dictionary, the Chambers Dictionary, and the Oxford English Dictionary all derive the word "sack" from the French sec, meaning "dry".However, the OED cannot explain the change in the vowel, and it has been suggested by others that the term is actually from the Spanish word sacar, [1] meaning "to withdraw", as in withdrawing wine from a solera, [3] which led to sacas. [1]
Trocken, German for dry, is a classification of German wine that indicates a wine that is dry rather than off-dry (halbtrocken), sweeter (lieblich) or sweet (süß). Trocken wines are not devoid of residual sugar, but have, at most, a few grams per liter, which can be perceptible but is not overtly sweet.
The natural occurrence of fermentation means it was probably first observed long ago by humans. [3] The earliest uses of the word "fermentation" in relation to winemaking was in reference to the apparent "boiling" within the must that came from the anaerobic reaction of the yeast to the sugars in the grape juice and the release of carbon dioxide.