2. The Wine making
Process
There are five basic components or steps to making
wine:
The harvest
Crushing and Pressing
Fermentation
Cllarification
Aging
Bottling
3. 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.
4. 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
.
5. The Wine making
Process
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.
6. The Wine making
Process
Crushing and Pressing
Up until crushing and
For thousands of years, it pressing the steps for
was men and women making white wine and red
who performed the wine are being essentially
the same.
harvest dance in barrels
and presses.
7. The Wine making
Process
Fermentation is being indeed
Fermentation 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.
8. The Wine making
Process
Clarification 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.
9. The Wine making
Process
Aging 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.
