Wine styles •
Aromatized wine – A fortified wine with added herbs, spices, or flavorings. •
Dessert wine – A category of sweet wines served with dessert. •
Fortified wine – Fortified wine is a wine that has had a distilled spirit added to it in order to end fermentation, help preservation, or influence flavor. The addition of additional ethanol kills yeast, leaving a wine that is high in sugar and alcohol content. •
Fruit wine – Fruit wine is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from a variety of base ingredients and can be made from virtually any plant matter that can be fermented. The fruits used in winemaking are fermented using yeast and aged in wood barrels to improve the taste and flavor quality. •
Ice wine – Ice wine is a type of dessert wine made from frozen grapes. Grapes are frozen on the vine around 20 °F (-7 °C), and later crushed in a grape press. The sugars in the grapes do not freeze, thus creating wine with higher sugar concentrations. Ice wine production is risky because many grapes do not survive the cold temperatures—resulting in ice wines being generally expensive. •
Orange wine – Amber wine gets its name from its deep orange color. This wine is made by leaving white wine grapes in contact with the skins, stems, and seeds during fermentation. •
Red wine – A
still wine with red to purple hues created by grape skin pigments, made from dark-colored grapes •
Rosé – Rosé is a style of wine that is made by juicing red grapes and allowing them to macerate for a short period to give the juice a pinkish hue. The maceration step only lasts two to three days and after that, the skins are removed, and the juice is allowed to ferment. Provence, France is the region that is most famous for the best rosés in the world. •
Sparkling wine – Sparkling wine is made by
fermenting wine twice. During the second fermentation, the wine is aged with
lees at the bottom of the wine barrel. While the wine is being aged, the
autolysis of yeast occurs which gives the wine the sparkling component. •
Straw wine – Straw wines are made from a centuries-old method of laying grapes out on straw mats for long periods to be dehydrated by the sun. The dehydration results in more concentrated flavors and sugars in the grapes, leading to typically sweeter wines. They are often paired with desserts, fruit, and charcuterie, or served as an aperitif. •
Table wine •
White wine – A clear to yellow wine made from white grapes or dark-colored grapes == Grape varieties ==