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This page has been archived and is no longer updated.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.
Is the universe expanding? Measurements indicate that the universe is continually expanding, or spreading out. Current belief is that space itself is enlarging, carrying along the galaxies that are embedded within space. The most distant galaxies and quasars seems to have departing speeds that are close to the speed of light.