The Wine Making Process Simplified

The wine making process is simply the conversion of sugar into alcohol by yeast.There’s no doubt that the wine making process can be a bit complex. There are all kinds of decisions to make regarding varietals, yeast strain, and additives. However, the actual process of how wine is made can be understood in relatively simple terms.

It’s important that you have a working knowledge of this process because everything we as winemakers do is to facilitate this process. We can build on this basic understanding over time, diving into more and more details along the way. Continue reading “The Wine Making Process Simplified”

Bottling Wine

Bottling is the final step in the wine making process that requires any  effort on your part. After this time takes care of the rest.

The major considerations when bottling are what kind of bottle to use, type of closure, and to add gas or not

Bottles

The type of bottle you use is completely up to you. A bottle’s shape does not impact the taste or life of your wine in any way. Continue reading “Bottling Wine”

Clarifying Wine

At this point your wine has aged a bit and its time to start thinking about bottling. However, before we’re ready for that we need to take care of a few things. First is clarifying the wine.

No one wants to drink a cloudy or chunky-style wine. It looks bad and even if it tastes great people’s first impression will be that your wine is off somehow. Why else would it look like that (they might think)?

What Makes Wine Cloudy? Continue reading “Clarifying Wine”