What is Winemaking?
Let’s start off at the beginning. Wine is made from grapes. At a winery, the grapes are crushed, and pressed, and the juice is gathered into a large vat (called a fermenter). Natural yeast, which was on the skin of the grapes, is now free to begin fermenting the sugars in the juice, turning them into alcohol. After the fermentation has finished, the winery drains the wine into a sealed container where it can clear and age. Once the wine has cleared, it gets filtered, put into bottles, corked, labeled and boxed. Sounds easy, right? Well, it is. We left out some of the details, but in essence, that is how wine is made. And, anyone can do it.
