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Free-run wine
The free-run wine is the juice that runs off the vat without any pressing. The wine released by pressing the cap is known as press wine.
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Free-run wine
This is the juice running off the vat without pressing the cap.
Fresh
Tasting term referring to fruity young wines with a nice crisp acidity.

Free-run Juice: The juice that escapes after the grape skins are crushed or squeezed prior to fermentation.

Free-run Juice
The high quality juice that runs from the FERMENTATION tank without pressing.
Hybrid
Any vine crossing where one or both "parents" is not from the wine vine, VITIS VINIFERA.

Free-run
Grape juice that runs freely from the crusher and press before force is used.

free-run is the name given to the juice or wine which flows without pressing.
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free-run juice: The juice that is drained from crushed white grapes following crushing. That is, without pressing the skins.

Free-run juice
This is a bit of a techie term that often appears on wine labels.

Aszú EssenciaThis is a rare wine, made only from the free-run juice of the nobly rotten grapes in the puttonyos baskets. attackIn wine tasting, the first impression of a wine on the mouth.

Contrast this with the higher quality free-run wine obtained without pressing the grapes. Press wine contains more tannins than does the free-run wine, and may be bitter. Winemakers often blend these two in varying proportions.
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Juice separated before the press is called free-run. It is of higher quality, with less bitterness and oxidation. The leftover skins, pips and pulp is called the marc, which is pressed.

Free-run
Wine or juice that is obtained without pressing
Free SO2/FSO2
The unbound portion of SO2 forms available for antimicrobial activity
French oak
Oak of the genus/species Quercus robur, or Quercus petraea harvested in France ...

If you are only using the free-run juice which drains off the fruit without pressing, you will obtain less juice. The harder the grapes are pressed, the more juice is obtained.

Grape juice - The free-run or pressed juice from grapes. Unfermented grape juice is known as "must." ...

During the winemaking process the wine must be separated from the grape solids i.e. pips, skins, pulp and stalks. It may be run off (free-run wine) to give a higher quality wine than that obtained by pressing the cap, (press wine).

The "pressing" is the juice extracted from the grapes under pressure. It has more flavour, a stronger smell, deeper colour and more tannins than free-run juice.
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Unpleasant sharpness resulting from excessive volatile acidity.

The juice extracted under pressure after pressing for white wines and after fermentation for reds. Press wine has more flavor and aroma, deeper color and often more tannins than free-run juice.

- the same genius behind Verite, Chateau Lassegue, and Tenuta di Arceno (among others) - makes this rose wine with 60% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from Bordeaux, using a process called "saignee" - whereby free-run ...

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