Wine Word of the Week: Fermentation

This week?s Wine Word of the Week is fermentation. Official definition from Jancis Robinson?s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Fermentation, as it applies to wine, is the process of converting sugar to ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and carbon dioxide effected by the anaerobic (oxygen-free) metabolism of yeast. It comes from the Latin word fervere, to boil; [...]

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