How is Wine Made? Step to Step Guide to Producing the Best Wine
Are you curious? You drink wine and you ask yourself how is wine made? Something so sweet, and soothing, and can stay for ages and not get spoiled. That is why your favorite chef is here today to tell you what you need to know concerning how the wine you drink has been made.
How is Wine Made?
Winemaking is also known as vinification, it is the process of producing wine from grapes.
Let’s look at the different steps to produce wine
Step 1: Harvesting
Grapes are what wines are made from, they are picked from the vineyard, usually by hand or by machine, depending on the type of grape and the winemaker’s preference.
Step 2: Crushing
After harvesting, the next step is to crush the grape and release the juice from the skin. This is done to extract the skin’s flavor, color, and tannins.
Step 3: Cold Soak
All winemakers don’t do this step, however, some winemakers choose to cold soak the crushed grapes to extract more flavor and color.
Step 4: Fermentation
After crushing and maybe cold soaking it, you will then transfer the juice to a fermentation tank, where you will add yeast to convert the sugar into alcohol. This process can take anywhere from 7-14 days.
Step 5: Pressing
After fermentation, we are now getting closer to getting our ready-made wine. The wine is to be pressed to separate the liquid from the solids.
Step 6: Clarification
After pressing, the wine is left to settle and clarify, which can take several weeks, I hope you are a patent fellow because wine-making only gets better with endurance.
Step 7: Aging and Maturation
After the wine has been cleared, it is then kept to age and mature in stainless steel tanks or oak barrels. This may continue for several months or even years.
Step 8: Blending
To get the right flavor and consistency, you blend the wine at this point with different wines.
Step 9: Bottling
The wine is then ready for consumption when it has been bottled.
This procedure has, of course, numerous variations, and each winemaker may have their own unique methods and customs. But now you have a basic understanding of how wine is made!
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