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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
Current observations indicate that the amount of baryonic matter and dark matter in the universe. implies that the universe is open. If gravity alone acts to retard the expansion and nothing acts to accelerate it, the universe is said to be closed if. I. gravity is strong enough to stop the expansion in a finite time.