What is port wine made of?
Port wine takes wine grapes, baker's yeast, ethanol and oak wine barrel directly. Trace them back and you pass 20 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Wine grapes goes straight in
- Water through ethanol
- Corn through ethanol
- Sugarcane through ethanol
- Timber through oak wine barrel
- Sugar beet through baker's yeast, molasses
- Natural gas through ethanol, ethylene
- Crude oil through ethanol, ethylene, naphtha
- Iron ore through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Limestone through oak wine barrel, steel, quicklime
- Air through oak wine barrel, steel, argon
- Dolomite through oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Coal through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sulfur through oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 17 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 9
Electronics 1
Food 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.