Wine Words

Episode One, Two and Three: A Deep Dive into Winemaking - 1: White Wines, 2: Red Wines, 3: Troon Wines There are a lot of adjectives used to describe winemaking these days. While much emotion is used in debating them, all are inadequate in one way or the other. Some of the most common are: Industrial Designed wines that use all the tools and additives available to create a product to satisfy a specific group of consumers. They are constructed like any mass consumer brand, like soft drinks, snacks, and all ultra-processed food products, and made by committees, marketers, and accountants more than winemakers. The wine shelves in your grocery store are full of them. These wines are interchangeable and better categorized as beverage alcohol rather than wine as they have the same relationship to grapes that Doritos have to corn. Conventional Often wrongly confused with industrial wines, which some certainly are, these are the wines many medium and small wineries produce. Most of these winem

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