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Winemaking Process- For Brian and EA

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A chronological view of grapes growing, tracking progress int he vineyard, the pick, the crush, the fermentation, and press. The barrel aging, to blending, and bottling line. The end of the process is designing the label.

  1. A Cluster of Syrah- 470 Clone
  2. Checking the sugar levels
  3. Pickers, on a row of Pinot Noir
  4. A head pruned old vine zin
  5. Teldeschi Vineyard lug bins
  6. Sorting through the grapes
  7. Two tons of Pinot
  8. Loading bins onto the truck
  9. Bins are removed from the truck
  10. The big zin clusters
  11. The Viognier needed some stomping
  12. Ken Zinns bringing in the next bin to crush/destem
  13. We've got Power!
  14. Kyle and Ken, filling the crusher/destemmer
  15. Each bin is handsorted before going into the crusher/destemmer
  16. Another round of hand sorting
  17. Removing any stems or "jacks"
  18. Grapes that have (botrytis) mold are bad!
  19. The Entire Crew helping out at the crusher
  20. Checking out the Syrah
  21. Dumping in the crushed grapes into the 1.5 ton bin
  22. Getting juice for a reading
  23. Checking sugar levels
  24. Kyle mixing dry ice into the must
  25. Tom, punching down the Zin
  26. Freerun Zinfandel #2
  27. The press
  28. Pouring must in the press
  29. Ken packs down the must
  30. Packing down the must
  31. Dirty wine sip
  32. Wine pours out of the press
  33. The wine slows to a trickle
  34. Filling the barrel
  35. Filling the barrel
  36. The barrels
  37. IMG_1242
  38. Rinsing bottles with S02
  39. Sparging the bottles with Argon
  40. IMG_1251
  41. Corking
  42. The big a** truck
  43. Kyle Loudon prepping the glass
  44. The glass filled up and ready for labels
  45. The bottling crew
  46. Bottling the Zin
  47. Back to the Drawing Board
  48. Our First Design Checkpoint 1
  49. Tweaking the Concept
  50. Design Checkpoint 3
  51. Further revisions
  52. And another image.... The chosen one

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