On the other hand the color and most of the flavor and tannin in red wine comes from the grape skins.
Red wine cap management.
Wine cap management is a term that s used only during harvest.
Pulsair systems pneumatage is an innovative process to quickly manage grape caps during red wine fermentation.
Red crush 6 cap management 31 cap management most of the color taste and body of a red wine is derived from the skins so it is very important to mix the skins and the juice throughout fermentation to insure that the flavor compounds are fully extracted from the skins.
Increasing fermentation temperature from 20 to 30 Âșc causes an increase in color pigment and tannin content of the resulting wine.
The extraction of color and tannins is influenced by temperature length of skin contact and the cap management technique followed during fermentation.
Pulsair uses pneumatage method to refers to management of the grape cap that is formed during red wine fermentation.
In this application a large pulsair bubble is introduced beneath the wine cap in a fermentation tank.
Various cap management options have already been mentioned.
Fail at cap management and you have failed the wine.
32 punching down is the oldest and gentlest method works best in small.
This is why i wince when i hear the slogan great wines are made in the vineyard as an old mentor of mine used to say great wines might begin in the vineyard.