Also known as charmat, a less expensive method for making sparkling wine. The tank method is used to produce bulk quantities of inexpensive sparkling wines. The second fermentation takes place in a ...

they will die and settle to the bottom of a tank where a winemaker will then separate or "rack" the wine away from the ...

What happens next depends on the type of wine. To make red wine, winemakers send the must directly to the fermentation tanks.

Through empirical observation, people learned that temperature and air exposure are key to the fermentation process. Wine producers traditionally used their feet to soften and grind the grapes ...

French term for stirring the lees during the aging and maturation of wine. Sediment—dead yeast cells, grapeseeds, stems, pulp and tartrates (harmless tartaric acid crystals)—remaining in a barrel or ...