How do you make wine?

Answer 1

Wines are made through the fermentation process. Grapes are squeezed to remove the juices. Yeast is added to the juice and it converts some of the sugars into alcohol. Differences occur by varying the type of grapes, whether or not they are skinned before squeezing, the types of yeast that are used and how long they are aged. If you fill a water bottle with Grape Juice and poke a hole in the top it will eventually ferment and turn into wine. Be careful though, if the hole is too big it will turn the grape juice into vinegar.

Answer 2

Making wine is a simple process and consists of the following steps.

1) The fruit that the wine is to made made of is processed to extract their juices.

2) This juice is transferred to a container suitable for fermentation, this may be Stainless steel, plastic, timber or even concrete.

3) Provided the juice is under about 30 degrees Celsius, Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast is added to the juice to start the fermentation process.

Some wine makers do not inoculate their juice but prefer to let 'wild' yeasts infect the juice themselves. These wild yeasts are often a combination of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other strains. These other strains may impart "off" or undesirable flavours.

4) During fermentation the yeast cells consume the fermentable sugars in the juice and produce CO2, Alcohol ( C2H6O ) and Heat.

5) After fermentation is complete, the winemaker may decide to undertake 'Fining'. A process that settles solids to the bottom of the container and may be as simple as not taking anymore wine from the container once once these solids enter the lines.

6) The wine is bottled.

7) You enjoy your wine.

The winemaking process is very basic and is pretty much the same weather you are making 1 bottle or 1 million bottles, the difference is in scale and cost.