This wine gets its textures and rich flavours from fermentation in oak barrels and undergoes full
malolactic fermentation and sur-lie aging.
5 L equipped with Muller valve and kept standing at room temperature to complete the
malolactic fermentation.
Thus, the Gosset house is able to maintain the family philosophies in champagne production that has been sacredly passed down for 16 generations: Avoiding
malolactic fermentation so that the wines keep all their natural fruitiness and age gracefully.
Large increases in pH during primary and
malolactic fermentations, which drive the finished wine into a high pH (sometimes >4.
95, Ultracomida and Curado Bar, Cardiff) which is made up from chardonnay and merseguera and fermented in small stainless tanks at low temperature in contact with the lees (all the bits and bobs) resulting in a
malolactic warmth to the bold stonefruits.
Like most red wines, this has gone through another fermentation after the alcoholic fermentation, called the
malolactic fermentation.
Cupcake is an IWSC Bronze winner which uses
malolactic fermentation as well as leaving the wine 'sur lie', then ageing it for nine months in American oak.
On one end of the spectrum are fresh, steely, fruit-driven versions that have mostly avoided oak and
malolactic fermentation (malo being the second fermentation that converts sharp green apple-like acids to rounder dairylike ones).
The winemaker's care and knowledge prevents
malolactic fermentation that destroys malic acid.
The resulting wine was aged in 35% new French oak up to 12 months and given full
malolactic fermentation.
She incorporates whole-cluster pressing with barrel aging of up to five months with no
malolactic fermentation.
Specifically, Merlot underwent
malolactic fermentation (MLF), a common technique in red winemaking that uses lactic acid bacteria to influence wine aroma complexity.
