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2. Hold glass by stem. Initially you may find this too pretentious but there are good reasons for it:
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Second, color is influenced by climatic conditions. A hot summer and dry fall result in ripe grapes, with a dark, intense color. A cold summer and rainy fall will produce undeveloped grapes with a lighter color. Third, wine-making practices also have an influence on color of wine. For red wine, grapes are fermented with skin. Since coloring agents are in grape skin, and not in juice, longer process of maceration, i.e. longer skin stays with juice, darker wine color will be. Fourth, process of wine aging also has an influence on color of wine. The young red wines are rich in coloring agents and that makes their color denser and fuller. In course of time chemical reactions take place in bottle and sediment is formed at bottom. The wine’s color gets lighter and is often described as brick or amber. Let’s go through an example: you pour yourself a glass of red wine and after carefully observing it, you notice a full granite color, good density, and not so good transparency. What conclusions can you draw? Well, you can safely say that wine is: - from cabernet sauvignon grapes; - from a Southern region; - relatively young; - from a good yield; - that wine-maker has gone for a good long maceration. If you know wine, compare what you know with what you see: maybe wine has a very full color and yield has been bad – this speaks of a good wine-making technique; or maybe wine is too pale for its age – this speaks for undeveloped grape or poor wine-making technique.
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