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What gives wine its color?

We can start out simply: Dark grapes typically make red wine. And light grapes, white. But there’s a lot more to the story. Let’s start with red wines where the grapes typically ferment and macerate with the skins. The skins have phenolic compounds (flavenols) in them called anthocyanins. -Different grape varieties have different amounts of […]

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