SIMURG
veraison
EN
noun
A term referring to the ripening of a grape; when they start to lose their green colour and take on mature hues, which can range from greenish yellow to red to almost black, depending on the variety.
[...] At the beginning of veraison, the berries are hard and green, and about half their final size. During veraison, the berries change skin colour and soften, sugars and volume increase, and acidity decreases. The colour of the grape before veraison is due to green chlorophyll, and at veraison berry skin changes colour to red-black [...] or yellow-green [...], depending on the variety.
Assistant Winemaker Ronald Du Preez discusses the importance of veraison thinning: dropping unevenly ripened grape clusters to the ground. [...]
[ v ɛ ' ɹ e̞ ɪ̯ z n̜ ]
Derived from the French term véraison.
Università degli Studi di Genova, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Corso di Laurea in Teorie e Tecniche della Mediazione Interlinguistica.
Alice Bendinelli
1) https://thegourmetbelle.com.au/wine/wine-glossary/V.php (11-03-2014)
2) Robinson J., The Oxford Companion to WINE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994, p. 1017.
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbapN1qy9ko (11-03-2014)
4) http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RABOSO_invaiatura.JPG (11-03-2014).