A winemaker or vintner is a person engaged in winemaking. They are generally employed by wineries or wine companies, where their work includes:Cooperating with viticulturists
Monitoring the maturity of grapes to ensure their quality and to determine the correct time for harvest
Crushing and pressing grapes
Monitoring the settling of juice and the fermentation of grape material
Filtering the wine to remove remaining solids
Testing the quality of wine by tasting
Placing filtered wine in casks or tanks for storage and maturation
Preparing plans for bottling wine once it has matured
Making sure that quality is maintained when the wine is bottled
Winemaker
Wine grapes
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