Why does wine need to age? Can it age theoretically forever?
In: Chemistry
Wine is basically the middle stage of grape juice turning into vinegar.
You put yeast into grape juice, keep out oxygen and the yeast turns the sugar to ethanol.
Then you bottle the wine and the cork lets just a little bit of oxygen in. This causes the wine to “age” and some wines really benefit from aging.
After too much time, the ethanol oxidizes to acetic acid (vinegar).
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