SHUT DOWN
Refers to a dormant stage of a wines development in the bottle. This often begins shortly after a wine is bottled and may last months or years. When the wine is in this stage is does not show it best properties and may taste flat.
Wine production in Oregon, like elsewhere in the United States, shut down during the Prohibition era, but resumed in 1933.
Freitag, "and if you don't do something to shut down the native yeasts and bacteria that come in with the grape skin, you're going to get wine that is absolutely horrific.
Placing the vineyards on a moderate irrigation program to speed up the ripening process was somewhat successful. However, in some vineyards the vine shut down and a lot of unripe fruit was hanging on the vine.
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