All about wine making

Throughout history, wine has made a significant impact on different society’s and culture’s around the world. Able to completely trace it’s origins all the way back to 4000BC in ancient Egypt, to where the first known reference of wine making was used. In that regard, the text mentions the Egyptians using cork, to plug their wine bottle’s. Through six-thousand year’s of history, hundreds if not thousand’s of wars, the rising and falling of civilization’s, wine making as we know it today still exists.

Of all thing’s to consider in wine making, the first step is always the most important. And that is the selection of grape’s. The grapes affect the quality and finished product in way’s beyond any other. Not only the type, and quantity of grape goes into consideration of the wine maker. But also the weather during the growing season, the soil, the time of harvest, and the way they are pruned. All of these variables can have a severe outcome on the actual quality of a bottle of wine.

With thousand’s of varieties of wine alone, wine maker’s have quite a challenge keeping up with demand. Worldwide, there are tens of millions of acres dedicated to wine vineyards and that number grows every single year. Knowing what type of grape to grow, how long it should be worked,when it should be picked, as well as weather conditions are all variable’s that are taken into account by the wine makers. Once the grape is actually picked is where the fun really begins.

After this time, the fluid is transferred into a different vat, once again depending on the type of wine, to ferment another few days. This second fermenting process has an impact on the wine’s actual taste. If the wine maker wishes the wine to be sweeter, no second fermentation is needed. More bitterness, and the wine will sit for yet another week. Where finally it will be placed into oak barrels to age.

For something to last six millenia, is an accomplishment in and of itself. Continent’s move thousand’s of miles, rivers are formed and dry up, canyon’s even erode away. This natural effect of time however did not have a negative impact on wine making as we see it today. Today, even though we are much more advanced as a society, wine making still retains some if not the majority of it’s original creation methods.