Wine is obtained from grapes.
Wine is an alcoholic beverage that is made from grapes . The process involves the alcoholic fermentation of the juice or must through the metabolic action of yeasts.
Vine cultivation occupies about 0.5% of the arable land around the world. Of the total grapes harvested, 66% is used for wine production, while the rest is consumed as fruit .
Wine professionals
The science of wine production - a term from the Latin vinum - is known as enology . Its experts are winemakers, who are dedicated to ensuring that the wine reaches optimal conditions of flavor, color, aroma, etc.
However, there are many other professions that are related to the world of wine. Thus, we would have to talk, for example, about the cooper , who is responsible for creating the barrels where the aging process of the aforementioned drink is carried out, or about the sommelier . This is the professional who works in restaurants and whose function is to recommend the best wines to customers.
Preparation process
Historians believe that winemaking began to develop in the Neolithic , according to archaeological remains found in the Zagros Mountains . Little by little, wine consumption expanded westward. Almost from its origins, wine enjoyed high social consideration, being the drink chosen for banquets and important events.
Pressing, fermentation, maturation and bottling are the four fundamental phases that shape the process of making and producing any wine. This is a product that can be used in many different areas and with different functions.
There are different types of wines.
Wine and vinotherapy
Thus, for example, we know that it is used in the field of gastronomy to prepare exquisite dishes or simply as a drink and in the area of medicine as a traditional remedy to alleviate pain or as a treatment against stress through the technique known as vinotherapy. .
France is where the aforementioned wine therapy was born, which is based on an exfoliation of the skin to eliminate dead cells, as well as a massage and a wrap where wine becomes the main tool to achieve relaxation in the person who he submits to that one.
Product classification
There is a wide variety of wines, without there being an official classification. The attributes that allow wine to be classified are very varied, and include its origin, its color, its residual sugar content and other factors.
The most common classification is perhaps that linked to color. In this sense, we can speak of red wine , white wine or rosé wine . Fortified wine , on the other hand, is the drink to which brandy is added before or during fermentation. Port, Marsala, and sherry are examples of fortified wines.
It should be noted that wine has become a world so full of traditions with its own culture that cinema has not been able to resist penetrating it. Thus, we find films that address the production of this drink, such as " A walk through the clouds" or " A good year" .