In the finishing process, what is a wine that is bottled dry called? | A vino generoso |
What is fractional blending? | The solera process of removing and replacing older wines with younger wines. |
What is vino de color? | A "color wine" blended into a sherry to deepen its pigment. |
How is vino de color made? | Arrope is added to Palamino Fino must in a 1:3 ratio and aged in a solera. |
What is arrope? | A dark syrup obtained by heating grape must over a slow fire until it reduces to 1/5 its initial volume. |
How is cream sherry made? | Sweetening agents are added to dry sherry. |
In the finishing process, what is a blended wine called? | A vino generoso de licor. |
Are Fino/Manzanilla sherries re-fortified before aging? | Yes, they've lost alcohol as a food source to flor during the aging process; they're re-fortified to 15%. |
Are Oloroso sherries re-fortified before aging? | No, evaporation has concentrated and increased their alcohol levels; they don't need more. |
What is "running the scales"? | The process of replacing removed older wine with the same quantity of the next oldest wine. |
How is the wine from the 1st criadera replaced? | With wine from the 2nd criadera. |
How is the oldest wine that was removed for bottling replaced? | It is replaced with an equal portion of wine from the 1st criadera (the oldest tier). |
What is the maximum amount of the oldest wine in a solera removed for bottling? | One third |