Wine Making Steps
Wine Making Steps at Your Own Winery. Our wine-making process starts with top quality wine juice, not wine grape. Therefore, the entire wine-making process takes only about 8 weeks. Plus, making wine from juice is 99% foolproof, so we can offer a 100% money back guarantee if not completely satisfied.
Select Your Wine
Taste from over 50 wine samples at our Free Tasting Bar – to decide which wine you’d like to make. Samples have been made from the same wine juice as your wine would be – so your finished wine will be essentially identical to the sample you loved.
Small Batch Wine Making
Wine-making at Your Own Winery starts directly with your selected wine juice, so no grape crushing – and we keep all our wine juices in stock ready for you to start on your first visit. Our wines are made in a “small batch” of 6 gallons (which yields 28 full size 750ml wine bottles). Your wine will contain 10% the sulfites of store wine – and a Vegan friendly wine-making process is available upon request.
Session 1 – Wine Taste & Start – about 60 minutes
Free Tasting to Decide – Start Your Own Wine that same Day
Once you have selected the wine you wish to make, we will personally guide you step by step to starting your wine. Our wine-making starts with premium wine juice, not grapes. The first step in our wine-making is Fermentation. A big word which basically means converting the sugar in the wine juice to alcohol. This is accomplished with a specifically engineered strain of yeast for wine making. This step is completed with equipment and tools which have been thoroughly sterilized to ensure no unwanted anything gets into your wine during the fermentation process.
Fermentation takes about 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, essentially all the sugars in the wine juice have been converted to alcohol.
After Your Session 1
About 2 weeks after your Session 1, our staff handles the Stabilizing and Clearing of your wine. This largely technical wine-making step includes adding ingredients to stop the fermentation process. Also to accelerate the clearing of your wine of suspended sediments. Lastly, using a cordless electric drill and wine mixing tool, we agitate the wine to eliminate Co2 gasses in the wine left over from fermentation. Otherwise, you’d get fizzy wine.
Before Your Session 2
To ensure your wine is crystal clear free of all sediments for your bottling, about 1 week before your Session 2, we filter your wine by pumping it through a series of 3 specially design wine filter pads.
Session 2 – Bottle, Cork & Label – 60-90 minutes
About 8 weeks later
- Finalize the design of your custom labels – at least one week prior to your bottling date
- Siphon your wine from its container into bottles using a special bottling tool
- Then “put a cork in it” using a special floor standing corking device
- Select and heat-seal a color foil bottle topper to match your label
- Finally, affix your personal customized labels to the bottles
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