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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
The visible universe is estimated to contain between 1078 and 1080 atoms. (One estimate at the higher end of the range is 4 x 1079.) This is the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe, but since we do not know the absolute size of the universe, we cannot be certain. Most of the matter in the universe is still hydrogen.