Hot News Wine Gal's Blog Displaying items by tag: Winemakers
Displaying items by tag: Winemakers
Subscribe to this RSS feed
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:22

So, What Happens After Harvest?

So, What Happens After Harvest?
Steps After Harvest to Getting your Bottle of Summerside Wine:

Harvesting-Fresh and fully ripened wine grapes are preferred, grape composition and proper timing is of great importance. Premature harvesting results in thin, low-alcohol wines; very late harvesting may yield high-alcohol, low-acid wines.

Crushing-the crusher breaks grape berries and removes them from their stems.  The machine then crushes the grapes, skins, pulp, juice, seeds and all and the result is called must. Ancient methods of crushing with the feet or treading with shoes are rare. (This a fun activity we do at our Harvest Crush Party, Sept 8th, call the Winery to make your reservation 888.508.WINE (9463)).

Separating the Juice- length of contact between the skin and the juice influences the color of red and blush wines and affects the taste of all wines. To make white wine skins and pulp are separated from the juice immediately after crushing and before it enters the tank or barrel for fermentation. For red wine, the seeds and skins go into the fermentation tank with the juice.

Fermentation-Summerside Wine Makers preform their job in making award winning Made in Oklahoma Wines. (Secrets, shhhhh.)

Bottling-getting the wine in the bottles, corked, labeled.

Enjoying-what we do when it is all over and start dreaming of next year’s growing season.
Published in Wine Gal's Blog
Read more...
« May 2013 »
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

Archive

Tag Cloud

go-to-wine-shop

Authors

Summerside Wine Club

 Get discounts on special purchases.

  FREE to Join. You will immediately begin to to experience unique benefits and opportunities. Just join today and start loving these benefits and savings!

join the club VIP1

Receive Our E-News


                                          This e-newsletter is mailed                                             1x per month and is full                                          of interesting facts, fun                                          events you can attend,                                        yummy recipes, news                                 about"what's happening in the                                 vineyard", Winemaker notes and                                 more!

Mobile Fan Club

You'll receive a welcome message delivered to your phone within seconds. Enjoy free offers, specials and last minute incentives not available to the public. Membership is FREE!

cool_phone_sm