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How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 5:53am On Jul 26, 2016
It all starts with grapes on the vine and it's important that these are properly ripe. Not ripe enough, or too ripe, and the wine will suffer. The grapes as they are harvested contain the potential of the wine, you can make a bad wine from good grapes, but not a good wine from bad grapes.





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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 5:55am On Jul 26, 2016
Harvesting: Teams of pickers head into the vineyard. All wine growers hope for good weather conditions during harvest. Bad weather can ruin things completely.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 5:55am On Jul 26, 2016
Hand-picked grapes being loaded into a half-ton bin.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 5:57am On Jul 26, 2016
Increasingly, grapes are being machine harvested. This is more cost-effective, and in warm regions quality can be preserved by picking at night, when it is cooler. This is much easier to do by machine on a large vine.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 5:58am On Jul 26, 2016
The harvester plucks the grape berries off the vine and then dumps them into bins to go to the winery.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 5:59am On Jul 26, 2016
These are machine-picked grapes being sorted for quality.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Lilprincey(m): 6:00am On Jul 26, 2016
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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:00am On Jul 26, 2016
Hand-picked grapes arriving as whole bunches in the winery.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:02am On Jul 26, 2016
Sorting hand-picked grapes for quality. Any rotten or raisined grapes, along with leaves and petioles, are removed.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:03am On Jul 26, 2016
These sorted grapes go to a machine that removes the stems. They may also be crushed, either just a little, or completely.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:04am On Jul 26, 2016
These are the stems that the grapes have been separated from in the destemmer.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:05am On Jul 26, 2016
Here grapes are being loaded and then taken by conveyor belt to a tank, from where they are being pumped into the fermentation vessel.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:06am On Jul 26, 2016
This is where red wine making differs from whites. Red wines are fermented on their skins, while white wines are pressed, separating juice from skins, before fermentation. This fermentation vessel will be filled up and then the grapes will be foot trodden, so that the juice can extract colour and other components from the skins.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:08am On Jul 26, 2016
This is a very traditional winery, the red grapes have been foottrodden, and fermentation has begun naturally. These men are mixing up the skins and juice by hand, this process is carried out many times a day to help with extraction, and also to stop bacteria from growing on the cap of grape skins that naturally would float to the surface.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by paschal47(m): 6:08am On Jul 26, 2016
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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:09am On Jul 26, 2016
Sometimes cultured yeasts are added in dried form, to give the winemaker more control over the fermentation process. But many fermentations are still carried out with wild yeasts, naturally present in the vineyard or winery.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:10am On Jul 26, 2016
These red grapes are being fermented in a stainless steel tank. During fermentation, carbon dioxide is released so it is OK to leave the surface exposed. Sometimes, however, fermentation takes place in closed tanks with a vent to let the carbon dioxide escape.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:13am On Jul 26, 2016
In this small tank, the cap of skins is being punched down using a robotic cap plunger. In some wineries this is done by hand, using poles.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:21am On Jul 26, 2016
An alternative to punch downs is to pump wine from the bottom of the tankback over the skins.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:22am On Jul 26, 2016
Here, fermenting red wine is being pumped out of the tank, and then pumped back in again. The idea is to introduce oxygen in the wine to help the yeasts in their growth. At other stages in winemaking care is taken to protect wine from oxygen, but at this stage it's needed.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:24am On Jul 26, 2016
Once fermentation has finished, most red wines are then moved to barrels to complete their maturation. Barrels come in all shapes and sizes. Below is the most common size: 225-250 litres.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:26am On Jul 26, 2016
This is a much larger, older barrel. This suits some wine styles better than smaller barrels.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:27am On Jul 26, 2016
This is a basket press, once fermentation has completed and the young wine has been drained off the skins, the remaining skins and stems are pressed to extract the last of the wine that they contain.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Nobody: 6:27am On Jul 26, 2016
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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:29am On Jul 26, 2016
This is a bladder press, used for some red wine and almost all whites. A large bladder fills with air, pressing the contents gently and evenly, with gradually increasing pressure.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:30am On Jul 26, 2016
And this is what is left at the end, the marc. It can be used to make compost.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by HaneefahRN(f): 6:30am On Jul 26, 2016
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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:31am On Jul 26, 2016
The inside of a tank that has been used to ferment white wine: the residue consists of dead yeasts cells.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:32am On Jul 26, 2016
Barrel halls can still look quite traditional. Cool underground cellars are perfect for maturing wines a process that takes anything from six months to three years.

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Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:33am On Jul 26, 2016
Testing: Winemakers typically check the maturing red wine barrels at regular intervals, and top them up as some of the wine evaporates during the maturation process.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:34am On Jul 26, 2016
Occasionally it is necessary to move wine from one barrel to another, or from barrel to stainless steel tank. This cellar hand is using nitrogen gas to move the wine without exposing it to large amounts of oxygen.

Re: How Wine And Cork Are Made: Illustrated Guide To The Wine, Cork Making Process. by Explorers(m): 6:37am On Jul 26, 2016
Here wine is being moved from one barrel to another deliberately exposing it to oxygen to aid in the maturation process.

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