🥃 Pomace
Grape skins, seeds and stems left after pressing.
Pomace is the skins, seeds and stems of grapes left after the juice is pressed. A lot remains of the grapes even after wine is made. Pomace can be fresh, if juice was pressed from white grapes before fermentation, or fermented, if the wine fermented together with it.
Pomace is not thrown away; it goes into various products. Strong spirits are distilled from it: Italian grappa, Georgian chacha, Greek tsipouro. Grape seed oil is pressed from the seeds. Pomace also yields tartar, tannins and animal feed. In Italy there is a cheese that is aged in grape pomace.
From water and pomace people make piquette, a light weak drink that was once drunk on farms. Pomace belongs to grape products, like grape syrup. Using by-products is a sensible way not to waste valuable material. Thanks to this, winemaking gives not only wine but many other products.
Links
- Previous step
- 🥃 Grappa, 🥃 Chacha, 🍷 Grape seed oil
- Part of
- 🥃 Grape products
- Similar and different
- 🍷 Piquette, 🥃 Grappa, 🥃 Pomace brandy, 🥃 Grape seed oil, 🥃 Wine diamonds (tartrates)
- Wine and milk
- 🧀 Cheese, 🌾 Compound feed
Frequently asked questions
What is grape pomace?
The skins, seeds and stems left after the juice is pressed.
What is made from pomace?
Strong spirits like grappa and chacha, seed oil and animal feed.
What is piquette?
A weak drink made from water and pomace, once made on farms.
Similar
🥃 Grape rakia · 🥃 Pomace brandy · 🥃 Lees · 🥃 Grape seed oil · 🥃 Grape juice · 🥃 Arak
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