Sparkling wine production
Sparkling wine production is the method of winemaking used to produce sparkling wine. The oldest known production of sparkling wine took place in 1531 with the ancestral method.
Champagne bottles in racks in underground cellars
Yeast in a bottle in riddling (remuage) rack at Schramsberg Vineyards, Napa
Today Gyropalettes usually replace hand power for riddling in the traditional method.
Bugey Cerdon produced with the ancestral method
Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over millennia. There is evidence that suggests that the earliest wine production took place in Georgia and Iran around 6000 to 5000 B.C. The science of wine and winemaking is known as oenology. A winemaker may also be called a vintner. The growing of grapes is viticulture and there are many varieties of grapes.
Wine grapes from the Guadalupe Valley in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Vineyards in Italy
Harvested Cabernet Sauvignon grapes
A mechanical destemming machine in use at Chateau Montelena winery in Napa Valley