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What makes a wine a particular color? – Episode #5

Mar 09

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Today’s question is from Julie in Soho who asks us “What makes a wine a particular color?”. Send us your question and we will do our best to answer them: http://www.tellmewinetv.com/send-us-your-questions/

Video sum up: What makes a wine a particular color?

Although this question looks silly the answer is really complex.

Basically:

• white wines comes from white grapes
• red wines comes from red grapes

After a lot of other factors have to be taken into account:

• The longer you live the skin of the grape in contact with the wine the darker the wine would become. For example: Rosé wines are red wine where grape skins have been exposed to wine only for a limited period of time.
• Different grapes will give different depth of color. For example Viognier and Pinot Grigio give a very light color.
• It also depends where the wine is aged: if the wine is aged in steel it will not add any additional color. But if the wine is aged in oak it will be darker.

After it is all a winemaker choice.