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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
In the 20th century the universe became a storyâa scientific one. It had always been seen as static and eternal. Then astronomers observed other galaxies flying away from ours, and Einsteinâs general relativity theory implied space itself was expandingâwhich meant the universe had once been denser.