Pre-fermentation cold soaking or cold maceration is a way to extract color and flavor from grape skins. Extraction also occurs during fermentation, of course, but many winemakers feel cold soaking brings out different, and beneficial, aspects of the grapes.
This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Current evidence suggests that the universe is expanding and that matter and space expanded violently and rapidly from a very small initial âpointâ. This has also led to the theory that the universe began with a âbig bangâ.
500 Billion --A Universe of Galaxies: Some Older than Milky Way. he Hubble Space Telescope site estimates there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. A recent German super-computer simulation estimates that the number may be as high as 500 billion, with many older than the Milky Way.