25 Facts About White wine

1.

White wine is a wine that is fermented without skin contact.

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2.

The White wine was drunk cool in summer and warm in winter, a practice which still continues in the 21st century.

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3.

The English, then the Dutch and Scandinavians from their demand for White wine, created a craze for planting between Bordeaux and La Rochelle.

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4.

Little dry white wine was produced for export from La Rochelle while Bordeaux exported mainly wines from the hinterland received via the Garonne.

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5.

The production of sparkling White wine increased dramatically and spread to the American continent.

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6.

Since 1962 the addition of vitamin C in the White wine has been allowed to a maximum of 15 grams per hectolitre at the time of packaging to stabilize the White wine.

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7.

Further, low acidity will cause the future White wine to be unbalanced with excess alcohol and lack of liveliness.

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8.

Strong limitation on the amount of polyphenols in the White wine by reducing the time between harvest and pressing is another technique that aims to make a very light White wine, protected from yellowing.

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9.

The barrel has a dual role: it flavours the White wine giving it a scent of toast, butter, and vanilla but it helps to mature it by providing a very small regular quantity of oxygen through the wooden walls.

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10.

The habit of refreshing white wine makes this wine particularly sensitive to this phenomenon.

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11.

The proteins can react with Metatartaric acid added to White wine to prevent tartaric precipitation: the White wine then loses its shine and becomes opalescent like whey.

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12.

In one early method, White wine merchants kept their stock in barrels or casks and the client would fill their pitcher or bottle.

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13.

The most emblematic is the bottle of sparkling White wine: because of the pressure inside it is a fairly thick glass.

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14.

When placed in the mouth white wine has a balance different from red wine from which the tannic structure is removed.

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15.

Acidity of dry white wine is reduced by slightly salty or sweet dishes while the wine accentuates the salty side of food and tempers heavy fatty foods.

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16.

Sweet White wine goes well with sweet and savoury dishes to mitigate the heavy sugar and stimulate the fruitiness.

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17.

The role of white wine is similar to that of lemon juice used under the same conditions: once verjuice fulfilled this function.

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18.

The drippings of cooking juices is a role that white wine can be used in; made with a sweet white wine and giving a sour-sweet or sweet-salt sauce.

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19.

Since the Middle Ages white wine has inspired many painters to include it in still lifes or for the representation of the everyday life, party life, or life to excess.

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20.

White wine's has cinematic posterity with The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec.

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21.

Serious or tinged with humour white wine is present in all kinds of works, novels, poetry, and philosophy itself.

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22.

White wine is used in humour, in a drama with Marcel Pagnol or in a gossip radio show for Pierre Desproges.

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23.

Sulphur dioxide additive commonly used in White wine is not harmful in the amounts used but its effects are feared among asthmatics: it can cause the onset of a crisis .

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24.

White wine is an acidic beverage with a pH ranging from 2.

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25.

In recent studies white wine was indicated to have some cardiovascular benefits.

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