Grape Wines

Although it is widely accepted today that wine can be made from innumerable fruits, flowers, vegetables and grains, etc., the original meaning of the word wine is ‘the fermented juice of fresh grapes’, and undoubtedly grapes are the easiest fruit from which to make wine. White wine can be made from white and black grapes, the method being to express the juice and ferment it alone. Red wine, on the other hand, is produced by leaving the skins of the crushed black grapes in the must, so that the colour from them is extracted. If the skins are left in only one or two days a vin rosé will be produced; if longer, a wine of a much deeper colour; but it is unwise to leave them more than 10 days before drawing off the liquid.