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is added after the wine's fermentation is complete, will result in a wine that tastes less sweet than a wine whose fermentation was halted. This is because the unfermented grape must will still have roughly equal parts of fructose and the less sweet tasting glucose. Similarly, the process of
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Glucose, along with fructose, is one of the primary sugars found in wine grapes. In wine, glucose tastes less sweet than fructose. It is a six-carbon sugar molecule derived from the breakdown of sucrose. At the beginning of the
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Fructose, along with glucose, is one of the principal sugars involved in the creation of wine. At time of harvest, there is usually an equal amount of glucose and fructose molecules in the grape; however, as the grape
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still being present in the wine after fermentation. Very high sugar content will effectively kill the yeast once a certain (high) alcohol content is reached. For these reasons, no wine is ever fermented completely
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Effect of Flash Release and Pectinolytic Enzyme Treatments on Wine Polysaccharide Composition. Thierry Doco, Pascale Williams and Véronique Cheynier, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007, 55 (16), pp. 6643–49,
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there is usually more glucose than fructose present in the grape (as much as five times more) but the rapid development of fructose shifts the ratio to where at
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sugars but three-, four-, five- and seven-carbon sugars are also present in the grape. Not all sugars are fermentable, with sugars like the five-carbon
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the level of fructose will become higher. In wine, fructose can taste nearly twice as sweet as glucose and is a key component in the creation of sweet
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In most wines, there will be very little sucrose, since it is not a natural constituent of grapes and sucrose added for the purpose of
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where sucrose (which is one part glucose and one part fructose) is added will usually not increase the sweetness level of the wine.
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Flash release and wine quality. Escudier J.L., Kotseridis Y. and Moutounet M., Progrès Agricole et Viticole, 2002 (French)
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solely in order to boost the alcohol content – chaptalization does not increase the
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there are generally equal amounts. Grapes that are overripe, such as some
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and "mouth-feel") sometimes encourages winemakers to add sugar (usually
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will be consumed in the fermentation. The exception to this rule is
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Index

Sugar levels (wine)

pulp
organic acids
winemaking
fermentation
wine grapes
yeast
ethanol
carbon dioxide
grapevine
translocation
sucrose
photosynthesis
ripening
hydrolyzed
invertase
glucose
fructose
harvest
simple sugars
carbon
arabinose
rhamnose
xylose
dry
residual sugar
alcohol content
body
sucrose

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