This Technique Can Make a Wine Taste Like a Ripe Banana or Tutti-Frutti Bubblegum

This Technique Can Make a Wine Taste Like a Ripe Banana or Tutti-Frutti Bubblegum

This technique can make a wine taste like a watermelon Jolly Rancher.Charles O'Rear for Getty ImagesIf you’ve ever sipped a wine that tasted like a sun-warmed banana or a fresh piece of pink bubblegum, you’ve experienced carbonic maceration. Carbonic maceration is a technique used during the fermentation process when grape juice becomes wine. Generally, this happens because yeast eat the sugars in the grape juice and convert them to alcohol. But…