Winemaking

The winemaking is very interesting and fascinating employment which is known to the person since the most ancient times. It is possible to tell that wine is a coeval of our civilisation.

From time immemorial people appreciate this noble drink its curative properties, wise men and poets sang of it at all times in songs, and wine makers created new grades of this remarkable drink.

The winemaking originates more 10 thousand years ago in East Mediterranean and therefrom the beginning will extend on the West. On ancient lists Egyptians process of preparation of wine and not artful devices which served for its distillation in drinks more strong is represented.

Very few people knows that cheerful junkets Greeks named symposiums. And meetings and debates of men of science did not do without some wine, sometimes differing nothing from cheerful junkets. Thus the greatest minds of Ellady did justice to wine, composing about it scientific treatises and singing of it in verses. According to the Greek legend, once god vinopitija and fun of Dionis has met beautiful satire by name of Ampelos with whom has very much made friends. When Ampelos was lost, Zevs at the desire of grieved Dionisa has transformed the victim satire into a grapevine. Since then Dionis began to learn to do people wine.

However, the winemaking has arisen long before a birth of the Greek civilisation. It is much more senior ancient Sumer, Assyria and Phoenicia. With wine archeologists found the sealed vessels in burial places of ancient Celts and in tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs. And in Europe some scientists consider as ancestors of winemaking Basques. It is the most ancient people of the continent which has come on the northeast of Spain from caucasus – therefrom, from the ancient ancestral home, Basques and have brought winemaking art to Europe.

In the Bible wine is mentioned many times. Jesus Christ, taking a bowl with wine, has said: «This is my blood». Since then the wine used at sacrament of a participle and identified with blood Dominical, allows the person to join divine good fortune.

The Roman emperors July Caesar, Tibery, Vespasian and Septimy the North, reclining on feasts, willingly lifted the cups filled sorrentskim or falernskim from amphora just uncorked by slaves … Romans have renamed Dionisa into Bacchus, and the holidays which before were called dionisijami, began to be called as orgies. A familiar word, isn't that so? As you can see, two millenia ago it did not bear in itself any negative sense.

Having won Gallia, Romans have brought there and ancient culture vinopitija … there Have passed centuries, the great empire has turned to ashes, and winemaking not only has remained, but also has had the further development on the Gallic earths where francs subsequently have lodged. Thus France, having intercepted a baton at ancient civilisations, and to this day keeps a palm in world winemaking.

Such countries as France and Spain essentially fill up the budget at the expense of export of wine and products of its processing.

The moderate use of wine well influences health and state of health of the person, after all wine is a well of vitamins, it completely keeps all useful substances which are in grapes.

In house conditions from the most usual raw materials grown up on personal plots or bought in shops, it is possible to receive a domestic wine of excellent quality.

If you the judge and the expert on good wine if you have a desire, try to make own domestic wine. Try, and your diligence will be rewarded, magnificent result.

Of what do wine? Wine receive as a result of fermentation in which yeast transforms sugar into spirit. Natural wine do only of grapes. Fault which structure includes other fruits or vegetables name rural. The best raw materials for wine manufacturing on former are grapes. It contains all wines necessary for preparation components: water, sugar and other microcells which impact fault excellent relish and unforgettable aroma. Grapes too contain yeast. They cover with thin touch grapes thin skin. The similar barmy touch can be seen on plum.

Yeast is microorganisms which contain special substances, various enzymes. In process sbrazhivanija under influence enzimov sugar will be transformed to ethyl spirit and carbonic gas. As wine contains own yeast wine can perebrodit by itself if the crushed product to place in special capacity. Juice which has flowed out from berries catches a barmy fungus, and at salutary temperature spontaneous fermentation begins.

The first wine has probably turned out spontaneously when rewandering juice of grapes have tried and have understood that it is absolutely new, pleasantly exciting and amusing drink. For many centuries the technology of winemaking has been brought to perfection. Presently each stage of preparation of wine is supervised very strictly that the drink had the first-rate quality.

Grapes mainly grow up on stony calcareous soils. Process of maturing of clusters of grapes proceeds till the autumn. Berries which have already collected crush and take from them juice. After that leave to wander in tanks. White and dark grades of grapes give light juice which is used for preparation of white wines. Red wine make of juice of black grapes which leave to wander together with a thin skin because it has a special red pigment. Which after dissolution gives fault dark colouring.

There will be a wine dry or sweet depends on when will stop fermentation process. So if to stop this process before all sugar will turn to spirit receive sweet wine. In dry wine weigh sugar sbrazhivaetsja in spirit.

On a site you will find the information on fault and winemaking, legends about a drink, recipes of preparation of domestic wines, history of occurrence of winemaking, wine growing. Also here it is possible to find recipes of dishes and delicacies which it is possible to prepare from grapes.