Method to Produce Wine
The first phase of the wine making method is to crush to convert the grapes it into a pulp. In older days the grapes were placed into a huge sized vat like container and the wine producers used to tread in these to spill the skins to crush out the juicy inside. Presently this process is carried out by the machine use of called, crusher.
In case of making the white wine, when the crushing phase is over, immediately the juice is taken away from the skin pulp and the process of fermentation starts. While making red (and rosé)category of wine, the juice part of the pulp stays in touch of the crushed pulp for a certain time to add the natural color, and certain typical flavor to the body of ‘must’ (the juice inside the container need be fermented).
Mostly the latest wines are made fermented at a comparatively lower temperature (around 20° C), which adds in the content of the wine a fruity nature. While generally white wines are made in cooled large, , containers of stainless steel but some special type of wines are preferred to get fermented in the conventional oak casks, made of oak wood or, oak chippings are poured into the musk to generate the special character of the wine.
Red wines and rosé wines are normally made in the steel containers. Sometimes, it is made in the casks made of oak wood. While the wine is going through the fermenting process reaches the optimum intensity of color, the processed liquid is removed from the main vessel typed of container, rejecting the crushed pulps behind in the cask or in the steel container. As per the type of wine, this process of maturation is extended from the tenure of days to multiple years as per the requirement.
If the typical “oaky” kind of flavor is planned for the wine then the process is to play in an oak barrel. New or used barrels made of oak wood can be reused as per the requirement of the ultimate flavor.
The taste of Italian white wine primarily depends on the different variety of grapes used and the storing time required for the optimum maturity in taste and flavor.
Nowadays sparkling wine is being considered the most cost affordable variety of Italian wine and readily available which reveals its technical feature that is light or little-sparkling.
In comparison to other red wine produced countries of the world, the Italian red wines stand apart due to their unique taste, higher level of acidity, and exclusive aroma.