vatting

[ vat-ing ]

noun

the stage of winemaking during which the expressed juice of grapes has been placed in vats and left to ferment.

Origin of vatting

¹

First recorded in 1835–45; vat + -ing¹

Words Nearby vatting

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How to use vatting in a sentence

The vatting might be suppressed if the apples were so comminuted as to give out their juice more readily.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure
By employing more efficient crushing machinery this system of vatting is rendered quite unnecessary.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

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