16 Types Of Wine To Know What You Re Talking About
What Is Wine? Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fermenting grape juice; winemakers add sugar-eating yeast to crushed grapes to produce alcohol. But alcohol isn’t the only reason wine and grape juice taste quite different: Vineyard conditions ranging from soil, sunshine, precipitation, and grape variety contribute to wine flavor while winery processes including fermentation temperatures, length of fermentation, aging vessels, and amount of aging make each vintage unique, Cohen says....