Wine
Mick O’Connell’s Four Corkers: varying degrees of skin contact make for a crush-worthy quartet
Four wines with varying skin contact and colour, and great depth of flavour
Skin contact might sound like an ’80s cover band, but more importantly it’s how long the juice of a grape is left in contact with the grape skins during fermentation.
For white wines, the grapes are squished and the skins go in one direction and the juice goes into fermentation tanks to make the white wines we know and love.
While the skin of most red grapes has a hue from pink to purple, the ...
