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Unpolished Grape 101: 6 Styles of Wine You Should Know
Learn about the most popular styles of wine!

White Wine

White wine is made from grapes fermented without grape skin contact. It has the clear juice from grape pulps, without the added color and flavors that colored grape skins provide. White wine flavors range from fresh citrus fruits to riper, tropical flavors.

 

Red Wine

Red wine is made from black grapes and is usually fermented with its skins. When grape juice is soaked with dark skins over a period of days or weeks, the process extracts color and additional flavors present in the skins. Red wine flavors range from red fruit to black fruit, to even cooked or baked fruit flavors.

 

Rosé Wine

Most Rosé wines are made from black grapes in a process that falls in between white and red wine. Rosé flavors can range from light and delicate (lighter pink), to riper with more red fruit (darker pink).

 

Orange Wine

“Orange wine” is the term given to white grapes that mixed with their skins like red wine. The result is an orange-colored wine with more flavors.

 

Sparkling Wine

Sparkling wine has two fermentations. After the grapes have been fermented by yeast, the wine is bottled or held in a tank. The winemaker ferments the wine a second time with a fresh batch of yeast. The gas stays trapped in the bottle or tank to create the bubbles.

 

Fortified Wine

Fortified wine has the addition of grape spirit or liquor that can push the Alcohol By Volume (ABV) up to 22%. Sherry, Port, and Madeira are famous examples of fortified wine.

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