Fruit Flavoured Wine
Fruit Wine
Fruit flavoured wines are available in Blackberry, Strawberry or Peach.
$125 makes 23L which is approx 30 bottles.
Customize the Sweetness level to suit your pallet.
Looking to make cider this fall?
Only a few more spaces available for hard Cider making
Winter apples are on the trees.
have your winter apples turned into hard cider ready to drink by January.
Get your apples ready, 100 pounds makes 19L of hard cider.
Cider or Fruit Ciders the easy way
Flavoured Ciders by Christmas
Want a fruit flavoured Cider by Christmas?
Deadline November 18th
Here's how:
Did you know that 100% Pure Apple Juice- 1L flats of 12- from Costco make great sparkling cider. 12L makes a half batch and 2 flats of 12 makes a full batch.
-100% Pure Apple Juice has no preservatives or sulphites to stop fermentation and it has the right balance of sugars and flavours to produce a very nice cider.
Just bring us the apple juice, we will make the cider, $50 cider making fee includes the CO2 to carbonate the beverage and if you need bottles they are available for purchase for $22 a flat of 24 qty 500ml with caps plus taxes
If you want fruit flavoured cider we have 3 flavours to choose from, Blackberry, Strawberry, and Peach.
$15 extra add on for flavours.
Rachet Press 40L capacity
End of season sale on our last Fruit Press
This press is final sale and non refundable please be sure you would like this rachet press before purchasing. Drop by our store to see the press.
Info was sourced from Wine Folly Article Table Grapes VS Win
Grape Pressing
13 pounds of grapes per gallon needed to make wine
About 90% of cultivated grapes in the world are Vitis vinifera. Vitis vinifera is commonly called The European grapevine which has ancestral roots in Iran. It includes wine grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon and table grapes like Red Globe grapes.
Table Grapes VS Wine Grapes "What's the Difference?"
Table Grapes Are Fat and Sassy. Table grapes are grown in a way to make them more physically appealing. They are larger, seedless, with thicker pulp and thinner skins to give them that ideal ‘pop’ when you eat them. Table grapes have less acidity and also less sugar than a wine grape.
Wine Grapes Are Lean and Mean. Wine grapes are grown to produce the sweetest and most potent grapes. They are smaller, riddled with seeds, have thicker skins and higher juice content (vs. pulp). Wine grapes are delicate and difficult to transport. When you eat a fresh wine grape, they ooze apart, leaving you with crunchy bitter seeds and chewy grape skin.
Standard eating grapes have a Brix level of 17-19, whereas wine grapes are closer to 24-26 Brix at harvest. Brix is the scale to measure percentage of sugar in a liquid.
Wine Grapes
Wine grape vineyards commonly use vertical trellises to manage the greenery (aka canopy) and grape exposure to the sun. The goal with wine grapes is to concentrate the flavor of the grapes produced.
Managing vine vigor is important for wine grape growers. Vine vigor is how productive a vine is. An overly vigorous vine will produce a lot of average quality grapes; a lower vigor vine will produce fewer more concentrated grapes. More concentrated grapes = better wine.
Grape FAQs
Table grapes are grown in a way to reduce clusters from rubbing other clusters, stems, or leaves. A trellis system that lets the grapes hang independently is better for producing picture table grapes. Table grapes tend to be more vigorous than wine grapes and grow in areas with soils high in nutrients such as river valleys.
A single mature Cowart muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia) table grape vine can produce 15-30 lbs of grapes per vine. A mature Zinfandel (Vitis vinifera) wine grape vine produces about 8-12 lbs of grapes per vine.