The Wine making Process

There are five basic components or steps to making wine:

The harvestCrushing and Pressing

FermentationCllarification

AgingBottling

The Wine making Process

The Wine making Process

Mother Nature is providing everything that is needed to make wine; it is up to humans to embellish, improve, or totally obliterate what nature has provided, to which anyone with extensive wine tasting experience can attest.

The Wine making Process

The Harvest • Harvesting or picking is being certainly the first step in the actual wine

making process.• In order to make fine

wine, grapes are being harvested at the precise

time.• Harvesting can be done

mechanically or by hand.

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Crushing and Pressing • Today, mechanical crushers are

performing the time-honored tradition of stomping or trodding

the grapes into what is commonly referred to

as must.

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Crushing and Pressing

For thousands of years, it was men and women who performed the harvest dance in barrels and presses.

Up until crushing and pressing the steps for making white wine and red wine are being essentially the same.

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Fermentation Fermentation is being

indeed the magic at play in the making of wine.

many winemakers prefer to intervene at this stage by inoculating the natural must.

once fermentation begins, it normally continues until all of the sugar is converted to alcohol and a dry wine is produced.

Sweet wine is produced when the fermentation process stops before all of the sugar has been converted into alcohol.

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when the fermentation is completed the clarification process is beginning.

Winemakers is having the option of racking or siphoning their wines from one tank or barrel to the next in the hope of leaving the precipitates and solids called pomace in the bottom of the fermenting tank.

Clarification

The Wine making ProcessAging and Botting

It is the final stage of the winemaking process.

Further aging is being done in bottle, stainless steel or ceramic tanks, large wooden ovals, or small barrels, commonly called barriques.

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