Harvest in Wine Country
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Summer's evolution into fall means that it is time to harvest in wine country.
Late harvest is a term applied to wines made from grapes left on the vine longer than usual. Late harvest is usually an indication of a sweet dessert wine such as late harvest Riesling.
Grape Harvesting Options
Traditional hand-harvesting and mechanical harvesting are the two routes that a winery can take to get the grapes off the vine and ready for crush.
Machine harvesting fruit substantially brings down the cost of getting the grapes from the vineyard to the winery. The exact saving depends on a number of factors, but 60-70% savings are a pretty average result.
Harvest
The process of picking the ripe grapes from the vine and transferring them to the winery.
Hearty
An adjective for a full-bodied wine with high alcohol content. It often refers to a tannic red wine.
Harvest: Harvesting of the grapes.
Hectare: A metric unit of measure equivalent to 2.471 acres. Wineries in Europe use this term to describe the land area of vineyards. Output of wine is measured in hectoliters per acre.
Late Harvest Wines
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Late Harvest
By harvesting later, the grapes are riper, and sweeter. This is appropriate for making sweet, dessert style wines.
Late harvest
Also known as late picked, refers to wine made from grapes that are left to ripen on the vine longer than for dry white wines.
Late Harvest: On labels, indicates that a wine was made from grapes picked later than normal and at a higher sugar (Brix) level than normal. Usually associated with botrytized and dessert-style wines.
Late harvest: A term used to describe dessert wines made from grapes left on the vines for an extra long period, often until botrytis has set in.
Late Harvest - Wines left on the vine longer than usual to obtain higher sugar levels.
Legs - The tear-like tracks that a wine makes down the side of a glass after it has been swirled.
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Wines made from grapes
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Late Harvest
Designation appearing on bottles (in French, Vendange Tardive) where grapes were allowed to hang on the vine beyond physiological maturity.
Late-Harvest
Grapes picked at high sugar levels. Or grapes whose sugar level at the time of harvest is due to Botrytis cinerea.
Lees
Any residue that settles out of wine after fermentation, made of grape solids or dead yeast cells.
Late harvest wine Also known as late picked, wine made from grapes that have been left on the vine longer than usual. Usually an indicator for a very sweet or dessert wine.
Late harvest
Late harvest, or overripe grapes are used to make dessert or full-bodied table wines.
Madeira
Madeira is a dessert wine, much like sherry, which comes from the Portuguese island of the same name.
Late Harvest: Indicates grapes that are picked as late as possible in the season for maximum sugar content.
Late Harvest: Wine made from grapes that are picked very ripe. Late harvest wines are very sweet and are usually served as dessert wines.
Leather: The aroma of some red wines thanks to their reducing aging in the bottle.
Late Harvest: a term seen on wine labels to indicate that the grapes for the wine were left on the vine to ripen, often raisin, for longer than normal. Usually a so-labeled wine will be higher than average in residual sugar and/or alcohol.
Late-Harvest
refers to sweet wines made from extra-ripe grapes
Lees
are the sediment consisting of dead yeast cells, grape pulp, seeds and pigment that drop to the bottom of a vessel during and after a wine's fermentation.
Late harvest
If you see a wine labelled as 'late harvest' it means that the grapes were harvested later than normal, and thus with a higher sugar level.
Green harvest
The practice of removing unripe bunches of grapes in midsummer in order to reduce the yield per plant and increase the quality.
Early Harvest: Denotes a wine made from early-harvested grapes, usually lower than average in alcoholic content or sweetness.
"Late Harvest": Wine produced from grapes that are left on the vine longer, inviting higher sugar content. Often a practice used to produce dessert and late harvest Rieslings, etc.
Early Harvest: Not what you would guess; early harvest refers to time of year, not time of day. These wines are produced from grapes that haven't achieved full maturity.
Harvest 2005 had a good lead-in to the season with good winter and spring rains establishing favourable soil moisture levels in most locations.
Harvesting may be completed in one picking or in several. The grape clusters are cut from the vine and placed in buckets or boxes and then transferred to larger containers (large tubs in Europe, metal gondola trucks in California and elsewhere) for ...
Harvest the grapes. In Italy, this might be in early September. To make Moscato, you need the proper grape. Moscato is one of the oldest grape varietals in the world with many sub-varieties.
harvest, grape picking
Picking of grapes for transportation to the bodega.
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harvest, vintage (with date)
Crianza
the maturing of wine in barrel or bottle. Sin crianza means an immature wine ...
Harvest Procedures
To produce fine wine, it is important that the grapes arrive at the winery in pristine condition. Night or early morning hand harvesting at cool temperatures helps guarantee the physiological integrity of the fruit.
Harvest begins this week at Château Palmer
Want to follow the harvest of 2005 with a close-up virtual visit to one of the great properties of Bordeaux?
Harvesting time is crucial to winemaking, with the grape rapidly losing acidity as soon as it ripens. Some viticultural hazards include the risk of damage from springtime frost, as Chardonnay is an early-budding vine - usually a week after Pinot noir.
Harvest season when the grapes are picked and crushed.
Cult Wine
Rare wine produced by a vinyard in small quantity which is well known to collectors and sold for a high price.
Harvest:The process of picking the grapes, whether by hand or machine. Also the time period when the grapes are picked; usually September through October in the northern hemisphere and March through April in the southern hemisphere.
Teas harvested in autumn. The term is typically associated with teas from India and .
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Late Harvest: Botrytis, honey, sweet cabbage
Gewürztraminer wines are an excellent match for fresh fruit and cheeses and a good complement to many simple fish and chicken dishes, especially recipes that include capsaicin (hot pepper) spices, ...
Grapes are harvested in the Lot and in the Bergerac, around the town of . It is a very powerful red wine, often harsh when it is young but remarkable after a few years in bottle.
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In Germany harvests are usually done in different times in order to allow grapes to reach different levels of ripeness according to the kind of wine to be made.
Cosecha Harvest or vintage, often used on bottle labels in association with the year of harvest/vintage.
Cosechero See Maceración Carbónica.
Criadera Cask used to develop or age fortified wines.
Vendemmia
Harvest or vintage
Vendemmia tardiva
Late harvest, a wine made from grapes picked late in the season ...
Grapes must be harvested carefully, for the proper amount of fungal growth must be present on each bunch. Often harvests are done in several sweeps, picking out the correct grapes on each pass.
Vintage: The harvest time and also the year in which the wine was made.
Yield: The amount of wine produced from a given area of vines. The less produced the more concentrated the wine will be. Too high a yield will make for dilute, watery wine.
American late-harvest wines are much less expensive, but the best of them are still quite wonderful.
raisiny
Late-harvest wines that are meant to be drunk at the end of a meal can often be slightly raisiny, which in some ports and sherries is desirable. However, a raisiny quality is a major flaw in a dinner wine.
Vintage - Grape harvest. If the year of a vintage is listed on a label, it indicates that the wine was made only from grapes harvested in that year.
With each successive harvest, wines were allocated the same bin year after year. With time the bin number became associated with the wine - the Shiraz was stored in bin 50, the Chardonnay in bin 65, for example.
Ban de vendanges a prefectural decree which, each year, lays down the date on which the grape harvest may begin in each district. Barrel the oak barrels used for élevage may be new or used.
Oak of the genus/species Quercus alba harvested in the United States
Anthocyanins
The pigment compounds responsible for the color of red grapes
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BAN DES VENDANGES (AUTORISATION OF THE GRAPE HARVEST)
Dates authorizing the beginning from the grape harvest; often occasion of festivals.
BAROQUE
White Type of vine of Béarn giving a wine of guard.
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May indicate a wine from grapes that were exposed to the heat of the sun after harvesting.
Balanced A wine that incorporates all its main components-tannins, acid, sweetness, and alcohol-in a manner where no one single component stands out.[4] ...
Cosecha - Vintage, harvest
Deguelle - The disgorging process used for sparkling wines. Called "Degorgement" in French.
Dorado - a fortified wine made in the Rueda region with the Verdejo grape.
Dulce - sweet
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When the period of the harvest arrived, the fog finally dissipated, revealing clusters of grapes, now ripe, that gleamed like gems in the sunlight.
Few other wines are produced, bottled, and released within a few weeks of the harvest. The most strategic way to do this is to employ a winemaking method called carbonic maceration.
Botrytis cinerea - A mould that attacks certain grapes, producing honeyed sweet wines like Sauternes and late-harvest Rieslings.
Bouquet - The complex of aromas that develops with age in fine wines; young wines have aroma, not bouquet.
If infected with appropriate amounts of "botrytis", it can make outstanding late-harvest wines - (e.g: comparable to the german "Auslese" series). The Finger Lakes region of New York state in the U.S.
When the grapes are harvested as late as possible the resulting wines are deep purple in colour with plum and blackberry fruit combining soft velvety tannins with a full body.
Greenish hues also may indicate immaturity at harvest. Light straw yellow through medium gold are the usual colors of young whites.
The grapes are hand harvested and are brought into the winery in small lug boxes and put directly into the crusher - destemmer. The grape must falls into small ½ to 1-ton open top fermentors and the selected yeast is added.
 See also: Region, Grape, Wine, Style, Vintage
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