Topping up
Topping up a barrel or other container means adding wine to replace losses via evaporation. This process prevents oxidation. Topping up a glass means adding wine to keep it relatively full. This process may speed consumption.
Topping: During barrel aging, some water and alcohol evaporate, concentrating the wine slightly and creating an airspace in the barrel.
Topping
A winemaking technique to control oxidation of wines aging in barrels where wine is added periodically to replace wine lost through evaporation.
Total acid
The measure of all a wine's acids taken together.
Topping
The winery practice of replacing evaporated wine in the barrel. The "head space" is also called "ullage." This is an important step to reduce the oxidation of the wines, and to ensure quality.
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topping up, cellar operation of filling barrels regularly to avoid oxidation.
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topping up: The winemaking process of adding of wine to a barrel to replace that lost to evaporation. If barrels are not topped up they will oxidise or become volatile.
Topping Up: the practice of completely filling casks or tanks with wine to assure that there is no air space in the container.
Topping Up: Adding pure wine alcohol to the must to arrest its fermentation, thus retaining a certain amount of residual sugar, a characteristic of the natural liquereux wines.
Topping: The act of filling a barrel or tank to the very top with wine, usually wine of the same type and vintage.
Can be removed to permit topping up or racking. The position of the bung-hole can be changed to maximize or reduce aeration.
Ouillage French for "topping-up." ^ back to top
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Palissage French for "trellis." Paulée wine-growers' communal festive meal to celebrate the end of the grape harvest.
Lemon juice and fine sugar make a very traditional and delicious topping.
Instead of using butter or non-stick cooking spray on the pan, try melted bacon fat(works great if you are making bacon at the same time as you make the pancakes).
The containers are kept full from this time on by "topping," a process performed frequently, as the temperature of the wine, and hence its volume, decreases. During the early stages, topping is necessary every week or two.
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However you'll see most sommeliers pouring straight into the top and allowing the mousse to settle before retopping.
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Ullage also refers to the empty space in a wine barrel between the top of the wine and the barrel's inside. In this case the winemaker would fill up that space by "topping off" the barrel with wine that was held aside for this purpose.
Add 1/4 teaspoon Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Powder from Nielsen Massey Vanilla to plain yogurt, along with some sugar or simple syrup to create a heavenly topping for fresh fruit like berries, peaches or even melons. Simply glorious.
and sparkling wines as they encourage the bubbles to collect and rise to the top allowing the full aroma to concentrate near the surface. Go slow when pouring the bubbly, to avoid frothing, and allow glasses to settle a moment before topping them off.
 See also: Wine, Bottle, Grape, Aroma, White
  
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