That this wine undergoes its crucial maturation under water brings the process full circle, giving the concept of terroir an even deeper, aqueous dimension.
Kristine Koerber of W.R. Hambrecht attributes the increase in wine consumption to the maturation of baby boomers.
One of the company's most popular whiskies is its cheapest, Bruichladdich Rocks, which promises to let consumers commune with "the oldest rocks in the whisky world!" Bruichladdich Rocks doesn't carry an age statement, but it is about six years old, and it spends its final few months of maturation in red-wine casks, which give the spirit a sprightly, pleasantly acidic taste.
The chalk is also used in the construction of underground cellars that can keep the wines cool through the bottle maturation process.
These casks have usually had previous use for storage or maturation of other whiskeys or wines and may be reused for many maturation cycles.
Similar to red wine, some craft beers actually benefit from a maturation process.
This style begins deteriorating a day or two after it's opened since the wine was exposed to very little oxygen during its maturation.
Many volatiles in wine are grape-derived, or form during processing and maturation — indeed the proportion of wine volatiles modulated by yeast was recently found to be relatively small (Robinson et al. 2011).
Metabolomics is then used as an analytical tool to investigate the variability of the metabolic profile of wines due to a series of different factors involved during wine production, including terroir, pedoclimatic conditions, vintage, vineyard practices, wine-making, barrel maturation, and aging.
