{"id":40238,"date":"2022-10-12T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/?p=40238"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:37:02","slug":"wine-colors-and-their-top-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.winesofromania.com\/en\/wine-colors-and-their-top-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine colors and their secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If you have ever wondered from which grape the oenological magicians were able to make so many different colors of the same wine, you must know that it is possible. At least 3 wines can be made from a black wine grape, in at least 3 colors: white, ros\u00e9 and red. <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cWhere there is law, there is no haggle!\u201d<\/b><\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The European legislation that rules the production of wines in the member states leaves to their discretion the details regarding the specific conditions for indicating the production methods on the wine label. [1] <\/span><\/p>\n

The names of the grapevine varieties, which produce grapes for winemaking and\/or their synonyms (where they exist), are included in the “International list of grapevine varieties and their synonyms”, managed by the Organization International of Vine and Wine (OIV), which can be found on its website. <\/span><\/p>\n

Each country has the right, through its specialized institutions, to establish the way in which the names of the wine grape varieties are written in its official language and the established spelling for them. The OIV list is updated periodically, the last time Romania submitted changes and additions was in July 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n

The most recent published legislation [2] regarding how to write the names of grape varieties allowed for planting and production on the territory of Romania is from 2020. These legislated names for Romania must be kept exactly as they are, regardless to the language used for label translation, because these appellations are part of our national identity. <\/span><\/p>\n

About a certain grapevine variety, with reference to its country of origin or to a wine produced in any other country than Romania, it would be deontological to write as indicated by the OIV List. In the <\/span>Vitis<\/span><\/i>catalog, which can be consulted on VIVC, was made a compromise, writing in capital letters the entire name of the grapevine variety\/clone\/elite\/hybrid\/ rootstock. <\/span><\/p>\n

As well as it is done with the scientific names in biology and related sciences, in order to give elegance to the writing and to easily find the name of the plant variety in a text, the specialists in the field of grapevine and wine agreed that it should be written in Italic font, i.e.: <\/span>Riesling Italian<\/span><\/i> or <\/span>Cabernet Sauvignon<\/span><\/i>. If the name of the grape variety is part of the wine’s name, then we will write it as it is composed on the commercial label. <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Is it compulsory to make only reds from black wine grapes?<\/b><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Winemaking technology and techniques have experienced major transformations in recent decades, they have been modernized and at the same time they have brought classic practices back to date, in new clothes. Maceration or the contact of the must with the grape berries’ skin has got back into the winemakers\u2019 attention, because the taste of consumers is returning to natural, original and authentic. <\/span><\/p>\n

White wine is usually made from white grapes. In France (and we took the phrase from there), in Champagne, <\/span>Chardonnay<\/span><\/i> is used to make <\/span>Blanc de Blanc<\/b><\/a>‘, that is, a ‘White from White’ wine. The French launched this name to make a strict distinction especially between the <\/span>white <\/b>(blanc, fr.) base wine for sparkling wines, obtained from white grapes and that obtained from gray, pink, red or even black grapes. Yes, even black grapes, as in the case of <\/span>Pinot noir<\/span><\/i>, from which the wine ‘<\/span>Blanc de Noir<\/b>‘ (‘White from Black’)<\/span> is being made.<\/p>\n

From the colored wine grapes (gray, pink, red, black) you can get a lot of final nuances in the wine that has or has not gone through a period of maceration on skins, from white to dark red, depending on the variety and the time spent or not in contact with the berries’ skins. <\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, from white wine grapes (yellow-greenish, yellow-straw, yellow-orange, yellow-copper, yellow-amber) you can make white wine with maceration, the so-called ‘Orange wine’, the most famous being the wine made in Georgia, in <\/span>qvevri<\/b><\/a>those buried vessels, in the shape of huge eggs, made of clay. <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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A complicated but requisite name for wines with maceration<\/b><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Naming wines with maceration, especially white wines, is a rather complicated matter. That’s why O.I.V. issued a resolution stating that it is correct to write (for Orange type wine) “white wine with maceration”.[3] <\/span><\/p>\n

In Romania, we have a legislative void regarding new (or old) winemaking techniques, and most of the Specifications for PDO and PGI provide only that the technology is “[\u2026] according to in force legislation”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, let’s see what the bottlers can write on the label of the wine that benefited, in its elaboration, from the maceration on grape berries and skins:<\/span><\/p>\n