It turns the sugar in the Grape Juice in to alcohol. Its one of the first steps in making wine.
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The process of grape juice transforming into wine with the help of yeast is called fermentation.
Must refers to unfermented grape juice. It transforms into wine by process of fermentation.
The making of wine is an an example of alcoholic fermentation. Yeast consumes the sugars of grapes, changing pyruvate into CO2 and ethanol (the alcohol of wine).
Glycolysis is a natural occurrence in all types of fermentation. It is the first step of the respiration process in wine-making.
The term wine is correct and official used only for a drink prepared from grapes by fermentation.
The term wine is correct and official used only for a drink prepared from grapes by fermentation.
Fermentation is always involved in the production of all alcoholic beverage (including whiskey, gin, wine, and vodka).
Wine is made by anaerobic fermentation. It is carried out by yeast.
Malting is done to barley in order to convert the starch to sugars so fermentation can occur, there is no barley used in wine making so nothing to malt! Grapes are naturally high in sugar so the yeast can begin the fermentation process unaided.
The grapejuice before and during fermentation is called the [must]. The same stage in making beer is the [wort].
No Spices can indeed be infused with wine in the process. Generally this is done after the fermentation. Some wine snobs would frown on this practice, but I have had excellent results with spices.