Matthieu Finot knows a lot about wine. He sees it as a combination of science and art. From watching the weather and checking the soil, to testing grapes for sugar levels and acidity and then deciding when to harvest, Finot says nature and winemaker must work together. “So what I do is I change grapes into wine. So, that's the easy part of it. But my job is a blend of farming, of science and arts because we need Mother Nature to ripen the grapes and to make grapes good to make good wine. So, that's the natural part. I need science to understand all the fermentation part and the aging part and everything that happens to the wine, and I need the artistic part that is what makes each winemaker unique and what makes brings the human factors into producing wine. And that is the reason why wine is being considered, very often, as, you know, is a kind of art. And there's a sense of artistic feeling to winemaking that I really appreciate.”
Title: Matthieu Finot: The Art and Science of Winemaking
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1580/winemaking.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Matthieu Finot: The Art and Science of Winemaking' data-article-id='2096'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5313'>Matthieu Finot knows a lot about wine.</span> <span data-start-time='5313' data-end-time='11042'>He sees it as a combination of science and art.</span> <span data-start-time='11042' data-end-time='29042'>From watching the weather and checking the soil, to testing grapes for sugar levels and acidity and then deciding when to harvest, Finot says nature and winemaker must work together.</span> <span data-start-time='29042' data-end-time='34708'>“So what I do is I change grapes into wine.</span> <span data-start-time='34708' data-end-time='36250'>So, that's the easy part of it.</span> <span data-start-time='36250' data-end-time='53563'>But my job is a blend of farming, of science and arts because we need Mother Nature to ripen the grapes and to make grapes good to make good wine.</span> <span data-start-time='53563' data-end-time='54958'>So, that's the natural part.</span> <span data-start-time='54958' data-end-time='74104'>I need science to understand all the fermentation part and the aging part and everything that happens to the wine, and I need the artistic part that is what makes each winemaker unique and what makes brings the human factors into producing wine. </span> <span data-start-time='74104' data-end-time='82563'>And that is the reason why wine is being considered, very often, as, you know, is a kind of art.</span> <span data-start-time='82563' data-end-time='87646'>And there's a sense of artistic feeling to winemaking that I really appreciate.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1580/winemaking.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=7797 data-hint-location='29042' style='display:none;'><div class='question' 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