Desmond Timeline doesn't add up! - Page 2

How long is wine kept in the cask before being moved to a bottle?
Do you know how many people you speak to while "working" a street corner? A kerbillion.. That's why Charlie doesn't remember Des..

Searched for some basic info on wine making.. Here we go!

Winemaking, or vinification, is the process of wine production, from the selection of grapes to the bottling of finished wine. Wine production can be generally classified into two categories: Still wine production and sparkling wine production.

After the harvest, the grapes are crushed and allowed to ferment. Red wine is made from the must (pulp) of red or black grapes that undergo fermentation together with the grape skins, while white wine is usually made by fermenting juice pressed from white grapes, but can also be made from must extracted from red grapes with minimal contact with the grapes' skins. Rosé wines are made from red grapes where the juice is allowed to stay in contact with the dark skins long enough to pick up a pinkish color, but little of the tannins contained in the skins.

During this primary fermentation, which often takes between one and two weeks, yeast converts most of the sugars in the grape juice into ethanol (alcohol). After the primary fermentation, the liquid is transferred to vessels for the secondary fermentation. Here, the remaining sugars are slowly converted into alcohol and the wine becomes clear. Some wine is then allowed to age in oak barrels before bottling, which add extra aromas to the wine, while others are bottled directly. The time from harvest to drinking can vary from a few months for Beaujolais nouveau wines to over twenty years for top wines. However, only about 10% of all red and 5% of white wine will taste better after 5 years, compared to after one year.[1] Depending on the quality of grapes and the target wine style, some of these steps may be combined or omitted to achieve the particular goals of the winemaker. Many wines of comparable quality are produced using similar but distinctly different approaches to their production; quality is dictated by the attributes of the starting material and not necessarily the steps taken during vinification.

Hope this answers some of our questions

So I guess it would be possible for the grapes to have been harvested in 1989 and then bottled for sale in 1995.. That would explain the date on the crate of wine and the lables!

Here is a cool theory about Desmond's Timeline from another forum.. Cool Idea..

The Lost Podcast Listener Forum - Flight 815 no survivors and Des's Time Travel...

cool find Wednighter, but now my head hurts

Yea my head hurt too after the first time I read it... LOL