Sweet Wines

Front 1

Sweet Wines

Interrupting the fermentation

Back 1

• Filtration - removing the yeast

• Fortification - killing yeast by adding sulfur dioxide or alcohol
  

Front 2

Sweet Wines

Adding a sweet component to the blend

Back 2

• Unfermented grape juice
  
• Sweet wine
  

Front 3

Sweet Wines

Concentration of sugars in the grapes 1

Back 3

Yeast dies at 15%

Dried grapes

• Late harvested, healthy grapes shrivelled on the vine or dried out after picking

• Regioto, PX (Pedro Ximenez)

Front 4

Sweet Wines

Concentration of sugars

in the grapes 2

Back 4

Noble Rot / Botrytis cinerea

• mould attacks ripe, healthy grapes, which shrivel on the vine
  
• hand-harvested grapes
  
• Sauternes, Tokaji
  
• Aussie, beer & trocken

Front 5

Sweet Wines

Concentration of sugars

in the grapes 3

Back 5

Frozen grapes

• healthy grapes frozen on the vine
  
• Canadian Icewine, German & Austrian Eiswein