Many winemaking practices that are recognized as traditional techniques in specific winegrowing regions are being incorporated to the pool of global winemaking practices thereby emerging as new trends in regions where such practices were not commonplace. One example is the use of prefermentative cold soak (CS) as a part of the production scheme for red winemaking. Red wines own their sensory properties to the maceration process in which phenolics and flavor components are solubilized and migrate by diffusion from the skins and seeds into the fermenting must/wine. The maceration process entails in itself the combination of maceration and alcoholic fermentation (AF), whereby the fer mentation process produces heat needed for phenolic extraction