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How It Works

You Are Four Steps Away From Making Award Winning Wine!

At Gino’s School Of Wine you are the winemaker. You will learn how to make wine in a hands-on interactive setting. Our state of the art winemaking facility has the latest winemaking equipment and our staff will guide you in the steps to produce quality, award winning wine.

How do you choose what type of wine to make? Please refer to the Grape Varieties section of our webpage for choices or sit down with one of our winemakers for recommendations.

Once you decide what variety of wine you want to make the winemaking process is divided into four sessions. Each session takes approximately one to two hours.

Session 1: Crushing
Grapes are crushed and destemmed. If you are making a white wine you will also press. If making a red wine the skins are left to soak in the juice.

Session 2: Pressing
The primary fermentation stage in winemaking usually takes around one to two weeks. During this time, yeast will transform the majority of the sugars in the grape juice to ethanol, which is alcohol. After primary fermentation you will press your grapes and transfer it to your barrel or stainless steel tank.

Session 3: Racking
Around 5 months after pressing you will rack your wine. Wine is transferred from your barrel or tank into another vessel and separated from the lees (sediment). The barrel or tank is cleaned and then the wine is transferred back. 

Session 4: Bottling
Around 4 months after racking you will bottle, cork, and label your finished wine. One barrel of wine yields around 240 bottles of wine (750 ml).

 

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