Overview of wines

Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by fermentation of the juice, fresh or concentrated grape. Its name comes from the variety ‘Vitis vinifera’ which is the grape variety from which descended most used in winemaking, and the first to be used for this

The characteristics of the wine to give the factors that affect their vineyards , namely climate region, soil and topology, but the care they give producers who produce. It is known that a grape that grows in a particular place and produces a wine, born and grown elsewhere, produce a wine with distinct characteristics.


For the production of wine, freshly picked grapes are pressed to release their juice or juice that is rich in sugars .
After that, the airborne yeast, or the addition of selected yeasts to the must cause the fermentation of the latter, resulting main products of fermentation, the ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. The latter, released as gas.

Fermentation usually stops when all the fermentable sugars have been converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide, or when concentrations exceed the first tolerance yeasts. At that time, it was wort, has been transformed into wine.

The graduation of wine varies between 7 and 16% alcohol by volume, although most of the bottled wines between 10 and 14 degrees. Sweet wines have between 15 and 22% alcohol by volume.

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