Malolactic fermentation is a naturally occurring process in wine. It helps to tame astringency in red wines and can offer ...

Denotes wine that has been fermented in small casks (usually 55-gallon oak barrels) instead of larger tanks. Advocates believe that barrel fermentation contributes greater harmony between the oak and ...

We met John, a fellow homebrewer who, mid-conversation, dropped his baby’s pacifier, rinsed it in champagne and put it right ...

tannin and red skin pigments unique to grape fermentation. Tracing back to 6,000 BC, a Georgian clay wine barrel, a cavernous terra-cotta pot shaped like an egg, lined with beeswax and buried to ...

a blackish purple substance that grows on the back of wine barrels. By studying this byproduct of wine fermentation that he called "wine diamonds," Pasteur concluded that molecules associated with ...

Filipino researchers have found a way to optimize the traditional procedure for making Philippine rice wine or "tapuy" to ...

Attack of the bacteria All red wines undergo a second fermentation after alcoholic fermentation is complete. It is called ...