When Should You Look at Adding Enzymes or Tannins to Fermentations?: Winemaker's Minute (Episode #8)
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Wine Making at Crushpad: Adding Enzymes or Tannins to Wine
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When Should You Look at Adding Enzymes or Tannins to Fermentations?: Winemaker's Minute (Episode #8)
Wine Making at Crushpad: Adding Enzymes or Tannins
Wine Making at Crushpad: Adding Enzymes or Tannins
You can make an addition of enzymes to a fermentation to more gently extract color or add a small amount of tannin to give your wine that small bit of added structure that brings fruit, acidity and alcohol all in to balance.
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When Should You Look at Adding Enzymes or Tannins to Fermentations?: Winemaker's Minute (Episode #8)
Are you looking to extract a little more color from that Pinot? Or maybe you want a bit more weight on the palate which tannins can give. Rather than put your red wines through a rigorous punchdown regimen to get maximum color extraction, you can make an addition of enzymes to the fermentation to more gently extract color. And adding a small amount of tannin at fermentation time can give your wine that small bit of added structure that brings fruit, acidity and alcohol all in to balance.
Blip | February 20, 2008
