Hand-sorting through a million tons of grapes to check for mold and other imperfections is laborious and time consuming, so wineries have employed optical sorters that discard exactly what the winemaker deems undesirable. High-tech optical sorters separate grapes with surprising accuracyĪnd that’s a good thing. Dumping Cabernet Franc grapes into the de-stemmer/crusher before the juice gets ready for fermentation.
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It’s widely used among home winemakers but less common in wineries since full fermentation is rare unless cultured yeast is also added. This naturally occurring yeast, often called bloom or blush, coats the grapes in the field and starts the fermentation process almost immediately after the fruit is crushed. Most people are familiar with cultured yeast which is intentionally added, but wild yeast can play a role too. While yeast is the essential component that converts grape juice into wine, not all yeast is added in the barrel. Grapes are sometimes fermented with wild yeast from the field Wild yeast covers Merlot grapes giving them a frosty look. Wineries like Beringer can now create botrytis-affected wine entirely in the laboratory by adding spores to trays full of grapes in temperature controlled rooms. The fungus also has an aromatic compound called phenylacetaldehyde that gives wine a “honey” or “beeswax” flavor. Noble rot dries out the grapes making the sugar to water content higher which leads to a sweeter wine. To produce sweet wine, vintners rely on a fungus called Botrytis cinerea or noble rot, which shrivels and decays the grapes creating two desirable traits: more sugar and a distinctive taste. produces more sugar, resulting in a sweeter wine. Red grapes are picked later and grapes for dessert wine, like “late harvest” Riesling, are left on the vine even longer so the fruit continues to ripen, i.e.
In California, white grapes like Sauvignon Blanc are picked first because winemakers look for lower sugar to acid ratios to give those wines a crisp, almost tart taste. To manipulate sugars and acid, grapes are picked early or left on the vineĬollecting grapes takes several months because the optimum ripeness varies from varietal to varietal. Merlot and Cabernet Franc were more than ready to pick on Hendrick’s family vineyard-some of the clusters had already been decimated by the birds. Harvesting at night saves money (no need to cool grapes before crushing), is easier on the workers and ensures a stable sugar level in the grapes, something that fluctuates when the temperature rises. You may know that August, September and October are the best months to harvest but did you know the time of day is just as important? In the dead of night, tractor-mounted lights flick on and field hands load baskets full of grapes in a practice that is increasingly common in California and throughout the world. The time of day you pick is just as important as the time of year Here are a few insights, and a list of places where you can experience the harvest yourself. With more than 3,500 wineries in California harvesting 4 million tons of grapes annually, there is ample opportunity to participate. Hendrick invites volunteers to pick grapes on his one-third of an acre lot, as do a handful of vineyards. Helena, knelt between rows of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, he taught me a few things about viticulture. As John Hendrick, a home winemaker in St. And while manually pressing grapes has fallen out of fashion in the tech age, there are a myriad of tricks of the trade I discovered last month during a trip to Napa.
Winemakers can thank Lucille Ball for glamorizing the crush during her iconic grape-stomping escapade in I Love Lucy.
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