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What is wine? - Correct Answer - Wine is fermented grape juice - Grapes are crushed to release their sweet juice. - Alcoholic fermentation is needed to change the grape juice into wine. What are the two principal types of grape? and what is their key difference? - Correct Answer - white and black grapes - look very similar on the inside - black grapes have deeply coloured skins that contain tannins What does the skin of black grapes contain? - Correct Answer - deeply coloured - tannins What are the charactristics of grape's pulp? - Correct Answer - soft and fleshy - the colour is the same for both white and black grapes - contains grape juice which is made up of water, sugar and acid what do you need for alcohol fermentation? - Correct Answer yeast what is yeast? - Correct Answer - microscopic organisms that eat sugar and convert it into alcohol and carbon dioxide gas - needed for fermentation how long does fermentation last? - Correct Answer - in most cases, until the yeast have eaten all of the sugar (some exceptions)