WINEMAKING
VINTAGE
The most important date on the winemaking calendar.
INTRO
What is Vintage?
Vintage is the process of growing and harvesting grapes to create a wine. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all grown and harvested in a single specified year.
VINEYARD TO YOUR GLASS
Spring
Budburst
The first sign of buds appear on the wine in Spring
Spring
Flowering
This is one of the more critical periods in determining crop load. Warm, dry conditions are ideal to ensure good grapes.
Summer
Fruit Set
The fertilised flower produces a seed and forms a green grape berry around the seed to protect it.
Summer
Veraison
The grape turns colour from green to purple or yellow as it ripens in the sunlight.
Autumn
Harvest
Once the grapes have attained the optimum balance of sugar, acid and flavour they are harvested.
Autumn
The Crush
The grapes are pressed and de-stemmed and the juice settled.
Autumn
Fermentation
Yeast eats the sugar inside the juice and converts it into alcohol. After fermentation we grade and blend our wines.
Winter
Ageing
Red wines are pressed off skins and put into barrels to soften the wine and give it more complexity.
Winter
Time to Enjoy!
The first wines of the new vintage are ready to be bottled in July. After that it’s time to enjoy!
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