Understanding

WINE

presented by
AYDIN DİRESKENELİ
 How wine is made

• Harvesting --- Sugar/Acid Ratio

• Pressing Techniques -- Red, White or
Rose?
• Fermentation
• Maturing
• To bottle
Bottle Corks
 Evolution of the Wine Bottles
• Amphora

• Bottle

• Standard Bottle
1979 - 75cl.
 Storing Wine in CELLAR!
• Temperature 10 - 12°C
• Humidity 50 - 80 %
• Darkness
• Calm
• Air Ventilation
• Angle of Storage
 Tasting Wine
• Temperature
White Wine 6-11 °C
Red Wine 16-18 °C
No ICE for cooling!

• Glasses
 Tasting Wine
• Red Wines
To increase surface
To collect its own aroma

==> Larger glasses

==> Round Shapes
 Tasting Wine
• White Wines
Not to be warmed up

==> Small Glasses

 Tasting Wine - Mistakes!
• Do not full fill the glass…
• Do not swallow
immediately…

• Try to feel the taste, smell and see the

color.
 Tasting Wine
• Watching • Tasting
• Smell
 Why smelling, not only
tasting?

Men can perceive only 4 kinds by

tasting…
But, can perceive hundreds of by
smelling!
 Decantation

• Sedimentation occurs in old wines

• Wine must decant to a decanter
• No need in young and white wines

• 30 minutes
Consumption of Wine in World

• France, Italy, Portuguese

60 liters per person
• Belgium, Germany, Austria
20 liters per person
• Turkey
1 liter per person
annually
 Wine Regions
• 50° to 30°
• France
• Italy - Mediterrenean
• Spain - Portuguese
• U.S.
• Australia, New Zeland
Wine Regions in Turkey
Red Wines
Boğazkere - Diyarbakır
Öküzgözü - Elazığ
Kalecik Karası - Ankara
Çalkarası - Ege
Wine Regions in Turkey
White Wine
• Narince - Tokat
• Emir - Kapadokya (Nevşah)
• Sultaniye - Ege
• Misket - Ege (Moskado)
Wine for Health