Cellar management will check twice to establish their winemaking equipment
Cellar management will check twice to establish their winemaking equipment is in proper order and will begin assigning workers to help harvest the fruit and process the grapes into wine. The longer the winemaker leaves the grapes to stand with the grape skins the more the Barrel Screw Accessories juice can draw forth color from the skins. It is getting close to the time when Temecula vineyards begin their cycle for the grape harvest. When it is time to begin, production crews will gather the fruit either by manually or with mechanical harvesters. Once the grapes are free of stems the winemaker will add yeast to the bins filled with grapes and leave the must (grape juice containing skins and seeds) setting to ferment. Many winemaking regions celebrate the completion of harvest with a day of festivities. During the whole time of fermentation the winemaker will keep watch of the sugar levels of the wine to gauge the process and will repeatedly punch down the grape skins that float t...