How We Do IT:

Making great wine from around the world is easy, fun and affordable!

1. Choose your favourite wine variety

Your winemaking experience begins with choosing the type and quality level of wine you want to make.

Wine varieties can vary from light, refreshing, fruit flavoured wines for easy sipping on a hot day to vineyard specific products from many of the great wine regions of the world. You can create great tasting whites such as Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, and Riesling; reds such as Merlot, Shiraz, and Amarone and even specialty products like icewine style, port, and sherry.

The ingredients for your wine are available in different basic formats that are defined by the length of time it takes to make them.

Four week wines are good quality table wines you can enjoy any time.

Six week wines introduce more body and flavour that can, after some aging, provide enhanced varietal characteristics.

Premium wines are made with vineyard and or region specific juice from Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc. Many producers offer Limited Edition wines.

Whatever your personal preference, Hespeler Village Wine Making can assist in helping select the wine most suited to your taste.

2. Starting Your Wine

Next we mix the contents into a large primary fermentation vessel. You start the fermentation process by sprinkling yeast into the ingredients. This only takes 5-10 minutes.

3. Processing Your Wine

Here at Hespeler Village Wine Making we are trained and equipped to take care of your wine until it is finished. We will handle all intermediate processing steps such as stabilizing, clarifying and filtering to get it ready for bottling.

4. Bottling Your Wine

After 4, 5, 6 or 8 weeks you will return to bottle and cork your wine. Table wines make about 30 x 750 ml bottles. This process can usually be completed in 30-40 minutes. You may either recycle bottles from your last wine or purchase new ones available at Hespeler Village Wine Making.

5. Presentation

Labels and coordinated shrink capsules are available and give your wine a finished appearance.

6. Aging

Aging is important for some wines to bring out the best flavour and aromas. We will gladly provide advice on aging as well as proper storage procedures.

7. Enjoying

Whether on a hot summer's afternoon, a special dinner or sitting by the fireplace after a long days work, now you can sit back, sip, and appreciate your choice.

CHEERS!