Oenology - Sweet and Fortified wines
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What is a sweet wine?
- Is a wine that has a high level of sugar
- Aged after the fermentation in an oak cask
- 9% of alcohol for lightest sweet wines
What is a fortified wine?
- Is a wine that can vary from sweet to dry
- Aged after the fermentation in an oak cask
- 16% of alcohol
How can the level of sugar vary in one liter?
- < 4 gr = dry wine
- 4 > < 18 gr = off dry
- 18 > < 45 gr = sweet
- 45 > < 200 gr = very sweet
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What is the main difference between a sweet wine and a fortified wine?
What are the type of fortified wines?
- If the alcohol is added at the beginning of the fermentation, the yeast is killed, so the residual sugar is higher as is the alcohol content (E.g. Porto wine - Portugal, Muscat de Rivesaltes - France)
- If the alcohol is aded at the end of the fermentation process, when the sugar is already been transformed by the yeast, the wine is fortified but dry (E.g. Madeira - Portuguese Island)
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