In the fifth video, it is time for the first racking to get the wine off the gross lees. While I’m racking, I also degas the wine, and add some oak flavor to it. Check out the entire series for How To Make Red Wine From Grapes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGQZwp3xoftMnC2v2b1liCe40goneosJ

In this fourth video, the pressed wine is transferring to a carboy to complete fermentation and settle out the gross lees. Checkout the entire series: How To Make Red Wine From Grapes

The third video in the series focuses on pressing the grapes and collecting the new wine. Check out the entire ‘How To Make Red Wine From Grapes‘ video series.

The second video in the series focuses on maceration and fermentation. Maceration extracts color, body, and flavor while the fermentation turns the grape juice into a young wine in a matter of days Check out the entire ‘How To Make Red Wine From Grapes‘ video series:

This first video in the series shows the wine making destemming and crushing process done by hand at home; no mechanical destemmer or crusher is used.  This technique is useful for smaller batches of grapes.  Anything larger than this would warrant a machine for destemming and crushing.