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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
Scientists have also discovered a predicted thermal imprint of the Big Bang, the universe-pervading cosmic microwave background radiation. And we don't see any objects obviously older than 13.7 billion years, suggesting that our universe came into being around that time.