Choose → Craft → Bottle
Step 1: Let’s Get Started
During your visit, you select the wine and kick off the fermentation process. Your options are almost limitless.
- Once you’ve selected your wine, you’ll work with your personal winemaker to officially start the fermentation by adding the yeast. And voila – in about 15 minutes, you’re on your way.
- For the next few weeks, your personal winemaker will care for your wine at the store, clearing and filtering it just like they do in a commercial winery. You’re blissfully unaware of the many activities going on behind the scenes, until…
Step 2: The Fun Part
Four to 8 weeks later, you return to the store to bottle your wine. This part of the process takes less than one hour, and is the perfect excuse for a group get-together.
- Together, you sanitize and fill the bottles, then cork and label them – using either labels provided by the store or personalized ones you create yourself. Haven’t you always wanted to see your name on the side of a wine bottles
- You and your friends may also want to start another wine kit while you’re there. The next thing you know you’ll have your own wine cellar!
Step 3: Patience…
Lots of things improve with age — and wine is one of them. The wine that you take home from the store may already be tasty, but it is not quite ready to be enjoyed.
- Depending on the type of wine you’ve made, it should age between two weeks to six months. It should be stored on its side in a cool, dark room.
- The most enjoyable way to experience the aging process is to try a bottle every few weeks. But be warned: many people find the last bottle tastes the best!
