Wine - red or white (Jan/05/2006 )
desperado is goood. (I don't want to hurt beer fans, but i don't like brown beers...).
hey, can you send me by pm some references? all bordeaux wines are a mix between cepages (is it correct in eglish/american?
)i have in my stock wine from hile and from malta that i keep for again 3-4 years.
Beer is more fun : no need to stock it for long years. but both are ok.
if some one is interested : i made a planteur (called the majority oftime "punch" ) that was very good...
general red and rose wine is derived from red grapes, white wine from white grapes.
The main difference between red and white wine is the fermentation process. Red grapes (including skin etc...) are fermented in the mash giving red wine a special aroma.
Fermentation without mash will give you rose wine.
Fermentation without mash and with white grapes will give you.........well........,.....,white wine
.Cheers
Thank you.
As Redwalar said it is definitely possible to make white wine with Red grapes, since most of the pigments come from the skin. It's just how long the skin is in contact with the the juice after the grape was in the press. White wine is filtered immediatly, rose stand a few ours and red can keep the skins up to few days.
An example, among the Champagne you will find "blanc de blancs" (white [wine] from white [grapes]) and "blanc de noirs" (white [wine] from red [grapes]) and the regular wich is a mix of wine from both white and red grapes.
And for Fred, have you tried the canadian Icewine? They are not worth some Sauternes (I am french too ) but some are really good, and considering the price of imported wine, I'd rather go local 
I still think grape juice tastes better than red or white wine.
de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum... As they say
What does "de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum" mean?
One mustn't quarrel about tastes and colours.
at least that's what I think that's what it translates too. My latin isn't up to scratch.
I also prefer grape juice.... mmmm sparkling apple juice, yummm.
Thank you vetticus3 for the translation.
The difference between White Zinfandel and Zinfandel is the wite is fermented without the skins. Why you would want to ruin a good Zinfandel by removing the skins 
I can't figure out