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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
1 The Universe is 13.82 billion years old. 2  The Universe is expanding a bit slower than we expected. 3  The Universe is 4.9 percent normal matter, 26.8 percent dark matter, and 68.3 percent dark energy.  The Universe is lopsided. Just a bit, just a hint, but that has profound implications.