Do you enjoy a nice glass of Red Wine? I'm currently sipping on one.
Yes I love wine. That red color comes from anthocyan pigments that are in the skin only
Wow, I did not know that. I was wondering why some reds are darker. I'm a big Cabernet Sauvignon fan after work.
Most of wine production involves getting the color and flavor out of the grape skin , so I read.
Wow, I wonder how long people have been making wine?
I bet a long time. The yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
I was wondering how that worked. You know a lot about wine. You might like it more then I do.
Winemaking
Winemaking or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over millennia. The science of wine and winemaking is known as oenology. A winemaker may also be called a vintner. The growing of grapes is viticulture and there are many varieties of grapes.
Winemaking can be divided into two general categories: still wine production (without carbonation) and sparkling wine production (with carbonation
Variants Red wine.
The red-wine production process involves extraction of color and flavor components from the grape skin. Red wine is made from dark-colored grape varieties. The actual color of the wine can range from violet, typical of young wines, through red for mature wines, to brown for older red wines. The juice from most purple grapes is actually greenish-white; the red color comes from anthocyan pigments (also called anthocyanins) present in the skin of the grape; exceptions are the relatively uncommon