What is red wine?
To obtain red wine, must is fermented with the grape skins for a certain period (currently up to two weeks). The dyes in the skin give the wine a red colour. The red hue of wine is determined by, among other things, the grape variety used. The colour and hue can change during the storage period. Young red wine is often purple in colour. Old wines sometimes tend towards orange. So many wines, so many red hues.
What types of red wine are there?
Most red wines are still wines. These are wines that have completely fermented and rested. Because each type of grape ripens differently in different wine regions, just as many different flavours will develop. Most red wines are dry in taste. This means that during fermentation, almost all the sugar in the grape has fermented. There is very little sugar left in the wine. Red wines can also be sweet. Then there is so much sugar in the grapes that it cannot all be converted during fermentation. The remaining sugar makes the wine sweeter. Because during the fermentation of the must the sugar is not only converted into alcohol but also into carbon dioxide, it is also possible to make a red wine sparkling.
How much alcohol is in red wine?
There is approximately 12 percent alcohol in wine.