winemaking, more good wine is being made
in more parts of the world than ever before.
Traditional and Industrial Wines There’s
now a spectrum of approaches among
winemakers, and so a spectrum of wines from
which we can choose. At one end is the
relatively straightforward approach found in
traditional winemaking regions: the grapes are
grown in a place and with methods that
maximize wine quality; they’re simply
crushed, fermented, the new wine matured for
some time, and bottled. At the other end of the
spectrum are advanced manufacturing
processes that treat grapes and wine like other
industrial materials. These aim to
approximate the qualities of the traditionally
produced wine by nontraditional means that
are less labor intensive and less expensive.
The grapes themselves need not be coaxed to
an ideal ripeness because the winemaker can
use various separation technologies to adjust