What actually happens between the vineyard and your glass?
Join NC Craft for a hands-on look at the journey from freshly harvested grape to finished wine. We'll follow the winemaking process step by step—from harvest and crushing through fermentation, aging, blending and bottling—and explore how each stage shapes what ultimately ends up in your glass.
This isn't just a tasting. You'll get to taste grapes, fresh juice, barrel-aged wine and finished wine, and see some of the tools and techniques winemakers use along the way. We'll even crush and press some Cab Franc ourselves and measure the fresh juice with a refractometer.
Along the way, we'll dig into questions like:
• How do winemakers decide when grapes are ready to harvest?
• What does Brix actually tell us?
• Why are red grapes fermented with their skins?
• Where do tannins and colour come from?
• What happens during fermentation and aging?
• How does a winemaker turn individual lots and barrels into a finished wine?
Whether you're new to wine or already know your way around a tasting room, Harvest to Bottle offers a behind-the-scenes look at the decisions, techniques and transformations that turn grapes into wine.
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