🥃 Grape products
What else is made from grapes: brandy, vinegar, sweets.
Grape products are the various foods and drinks made from grapes other than wine, such as brandy, vinegar and sweets. Grapes are used for much more than wine. The same berries give dozens of products, from juice and sweets to spirits and oil. Many of them began as a way to waste nothing after the harvest.
The simplest are grape juice and grape must, fresh juice before fermentation. Boiled-down must becomes grape syrup, the base of churchkhela, pelamushi and Greek moustalevria. Dried berries become raisins. The sour juice of unripe grapes is verjuice, and soured wine turns into wine vinegar and balsamic vinegar.
Pressing leaves pomace: skins, seeds and stems. It is distilled into pomace brandy, and the seeds are pressed for grape seed oil. Wine itself is distilled into brandy, and grape spirit is the base of grape rakia, arak, rakı and ouzo.
Even the leftovers of fermentation are useful. Wine lees from the bottom of the tank go into feed and food industry, and wine tartar, the crystals on barrel walls, gives tartaric acid and baking powder.
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Frequently asked questions
What is made from grapes besides wine?
Juice, syrup, raisins, vinegar, verjuice, sweets such as churchkhela, grape seed oil, and spirits such as brandy and pomace brandy.
What is grape pomace?
It is the skins, seeds and stems left after pressing. It is distilled into spirits or used for oil, animal feed and compost.
Where does wine tartar come from?
It forms on its own as crystals in barrels and tanks while wine matures. Purified, it gives tartaric acid and cream of tartar for baking.
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