Many winemaking practices that are recognized as traditional
techniques in specific winegrowing regions are being incorporated
tothepool of globalwinemakingpractices therebyemergingas 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 sen-
sory 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 fermentationprocess produces heat
needed for phenolic extraction