vinify

As the French found themselves with nothing to vinify, they began a worldwide exodus to places where grapes could still grow.

"How to vinify wine is not so complicated."

When wines are made in September, the growers vinify the different batches of grapes separately.

They vinify each grape type separately, bleeding some vats and using the pressing method for others.

Often winemakers will have separate press pans under each section that they will keep apart and vinify separately.

It is a difficult grape to vinify, and has increasingly been replaced by Blaufränkisch, known locally as Kékfrankos.

Wine cellars usually vinify a simple light red wine, which is characterized by a fresh, tart and light body.

In order to achieve that goal, they decided to vinify according to the traditions of Burgundy, a region of France where this variety comes from.

During this past year, G. Saladin did not vinify any wine, but instead sold the Pécany grapes in bulk.

Maufoux has been buying grapes from the same grower in Les Chenevottes for a decade and obviously knows how to vinify them.

The Germans, concluding that their signature sweet wines were obsolete, began to vinify their famous riesling grape into a dry wine.

The Alsatians manage to vinify their rieslings so that most of the sweetness but none of the flowery bouquet and rich taste are lost.

When the Grace grapes arrived, Caymus's owner, Charles Wagner, was so impressed that he decided to vinify them separately.

Condrieu, a septentrional, is one of the rarest white wines in the world and is produced from 100% Viognier - a notoriously difficult grape to vinify.

Owning only a small portion of a particular high-quality single vineyard (lieu-dit) meant that a grower often had insufficient wine from a parcel to vinify on its own.

Pinot blanc has also been confused with Chardonnay, and wineries often vinify it in a similar style, using barrel fermentation, new oak and malolactic fermentation.

The rapid success of California versions of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and Hermitage emboldened wineries to cultivate and vinify the prestige Italian grapes.

The last Ramonet acquisition was six-tenths of an acre in the Montrachet vineyard, which the Ramonets bought in 1978 in time to vinify that year's vintage.

Alan Nelson, the owner of a winery in Paarl, has given 16 of his black workers a small plot of their own, and they vinify their grapes using his equipment.

Some winemakers choose to vinify the bunches with these varying levels of ripeness, while others hand-harvest the bunches, even by single berries, through multiple passes through the vineyards over several weeks.

They also vinify other varietals from around New Zealand for their Growers Collection including Riesling, Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc and Semillon.

Most Macon blanc is produced by cooperatives, which buy grapes from growers, crush the fruit, vinify the juice and sell the wine to shippers who bottle and market it under a variety of labels.

Jedediah Steele, the founder and chief winemaker for Steele Wines in Lake County, Calif., likes to buy grapes, especially zinfandel, from various growers and vinify each batch separately.

The twentieth century saw the introduction of modern grapes such as Zweigelt, which were easier to grow and to vinify than Kadarka, and under Communism quality was neglected in favour of overcropping, pasteurisation, and industrial production.

"We think sauvignon blanc's flavors are best appreciated by most people in the first 18 months," said Mr. Healy, Cloudy Bay's enologist, "so we try to vinify it so it looks and tastes good from the word go."