Spotlight on High Volume Inexpensive Red Wines - Part 2
This show was published 28 October 2022
- Spotlight on High Volume Inexpensive Red Wines - Part 2
Overview
In Part 2 we look in detail at winemaking techniques.
Producers often use winemaking techniques that produce low tannin wines to give the wine as much appeal as possible to the consumer: easy drinking, reliable, popular at a low cost, with good distribution are key factors to secure high level of volume sales.
We explore the use of oak chips and staves vs oak barrels and how this style of wine will often follow a protective (or anaerobic) winemaking process to keep the wine away from oxygen. We discuss pre-fermentation maceration and fermentation processes. Carbonic maceration produces fruitier styles but needs whole bunches and hand picking. Blending wines is a typical practice although, clearly, single varietal wines are commonly made in high volumes.
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