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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
There is no centre of the universe! According to the standard theories of cosmology, the universe started with a Big Bang about 14 thousand million years ago and has been expanding ever since. Yet there is no centre to the expansion; it is the same everywhere. The Big Bang should not be visualised as an ordinary explosion.