{"id":4251,"date":"2021-10-20T02:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebottli.com.au\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2022-07-14T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:37:37","slug":"how-sweet-wines-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebottli.com\/fr\/how-sweet-wines-are-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How sweet wines are made?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4251\" class=\"elementor elementor-4251\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3392e288 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3392e288\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-54411899\" data-id=\"54411899\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-404d8a05 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"404d8a05\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.6 - 28-02-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":1} --><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Written by Qingrui Song\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow: visible; cursor: text; clear: both; position: relative; direction: ltr; color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>How sweet wines are made?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">When you drink sweet wine, have you ever wondered where these different sweet tastes come from? It seems that every sweet wine has its own unique style of sweetness. But why? Let us explore how sweet wines are made. The sweet wine refers to residual sugar that is more than 30 grams per litre, which is generally naturally sweet and unfortified. There are several methods to make sweet wines by increasing the sugar level. For example, there is late harvest botrytis infected grapes, late harvest ice wine, freeze concentration, addition of juice concentrate, and drying the grapes to increase the concentration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Ice Wine<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">The sommelier, Alpana Singh said: \u201cIt takes a great deal of labour and love to make\u202fice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.\u201d This is a very interesting comment. Some people who are not familiar with ice wine, may take for granted that ice wine is cold wine according to the literal meaning. It is an understandable opinion because the optimum way of drinking ice wine is at a low temperature. However, the reason it is called ice wine is that it uses frozen grapes to produce ice wine for tasting sweet. Specifically, the characteristic of ice wine is refreshing and clean sweetness, and this sweet style comes from grapes covered in snow and ice. Due to the difficulty of harvesting grapes in cold winter and using frozen grapes to make\u00a0juice, it\u00a0is\u00a0very hard work and so it\u00a0is\u00a0impossible to make valuable ice wine without considerable commitment and enthusiasm.\u00a0So now you know the secret of ice wine, you will not choose dessert when you next enjoy ice wine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\" data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4252 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebottli.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/7-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebottli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/7-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/ebottli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/7.png 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">Here is the main winemaking method to make ice wine. Firstly, grapes are harvested from the vineyard\u00a0 at a \u00a0temperature below -8\u2103 (Nourissat, 2018). The cold temperature allows sugar to concentrate on grapes to increase the sweet level. The consumer should be careful not to buy fake ice wine. If the grapes are frozen in refrigeration rather than naturally frozen in the natural environment, this wine will not be regarded as true ice wine. Next step in the process, is getting grape juice before fermentation. When using frozen grapes to get juice, this can do damage to the presser. Furthermore, grape juice is not easily extracted at low temperature as most water components are frozen. That is one of the reasons why ice wine is expensive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Botrytis Infected Wine<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">For microbiology fans, the word botrytis is a mysterious name of the fungus. Humid microclimates are very important for creating botrytis style. The fungus Botrytis attacks grapes in humid conditions, developing into gray rot. When a desirable botrytis infection occurs in grapes, it can\u00a0 produce what is called noble rot (Jarvis, 2017). Noble Rot causes grapes to dehydrate.\u202fThe sugar concentration increases due to water loss by evaporation, which leads to grape gaining a high level of sweetness. Gently press botrytis-infected grapes to obtain juice to produce sweet botrytis-infected wine. Botrytis leads to many flavours being formed, producing rich and mellow sweet wine with honey, spice and medicinal aromas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\" data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4253 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebottli.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/8-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebottli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/8-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/ebottli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/8.png 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Fortified Wine\u00a0of\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/winefolly.com\/grapes\/pedro-ximenez\/\"><b>Pedro\u00a0Xim\u00e9nez\u00a0(PX)<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0Sherry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">PX is one of the Sherry wines, which is the highest sweet sherry. William Shakespeare spoke highly of Sherry as \u201cSpanish sunshine in a bottle!\u201d In my opinion, the PX Sherry is honey sweet out of the bottle. This fortified sweet wine is made of dry grapes. The white grape variety is also Pedro Xim\u00e9nez. The harvested grapes are dried in the sun. This method can remove water from grapes to concentrate the sugar levels (Sweet and Sabroso, 2018). In the meantime, the additional flavour will be formed. That is why PX Sherry has dried fruity aroma. The fermentation step is very special because of partial fermentation (Sweet and Sabroso, 2018). It means that the fermentation is stopped by adding high alcohol spirits to prevent all the sugar converting to ethyl alcohol, which leads to high sweet levels left in the wine. The following production process is similar to that used when making Sherry, that is using a Solera system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\" data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4254 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebottli.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebottli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/ebottli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9.png 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Freeze\u00a0Concentration Method<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">After getting juice from grapes, put it in the chilled tank to allow water to freeze out of the juice. The concentrated juice can be run off from the tank, leaving a block of ice in the tank. This method remains limited and does not make it possible to increase the sugar concentrations very strongly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\"><b>References<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">Jarvis, T. (2017).\u00a0<i>The Complete Guide to Botrytis.<\/i>\u00a0Retrieved from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/m\/2017\/07\/the-complete-guide-to-botrytis\">https:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/m\/2017\/07\/the-complete-guide-to-botrytis\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">Nourissat, V. (2018).\u00a0<i>Ice Wine 101 in 6 Simple Steps.<\/i> Retrieved from Ref <a href=\"https:\/\/vnourissat.medium.com\/ice-wine-101-in-6-simple-steps-196886c3a6d5\">https:\/\/vnourissat.medium.com\/ice-wine-101-in-6-simple-steps-196886c3a6d5\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Nunito; font-size: 10pt;\">Sweet and\u00a0Sabroso. (2018).<i>\u00a0Pedro\u00a0Xim\u00e9nez\u00a0(PX) Wine Reduction Sauce \u2013\u00a0You\u2019ll\u00a0Want to Put it on Everything!<\/i>\u00a0Retrieved from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetandsabroso.com\/2018\/01\/recipe-pedro-ximenez-px-reduction-sauce\/\">http:\/\/www.sweetandsabroso.com\/2018\/01\/recipe-pedro-ximenez-px-reduction-sauce\/\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Qingrui Song\u00a0 How sweet wines are made?\u00a0 When you drink sweet wine, have you ever wondered where these different sweet tastes come from? It seems that every sweet wine has its own unique style of sweetness. But why? Let us explore how sweet wines are made. 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