How to make your own wine in Barrhaven – Vintner’s Cellar
I must confess, I’ve always been curious about making my own wine but didn’t know much about the process or what costs are involved. As it turns out, Barrhaven is home to a very well established wine making service called Vintner’s Cellar. Not only can you make your own wines, you can also save a considerable amount of money doing so.
The economics of making your own wine are simple. Instead of spending $10-20 per bottle of wine at a local retailer, you can spend as little as $4 to make your very own in bulk quantities.
Wine making has evolved in the past few years and the quality of the ingredients have improved significantly. Vintner’s Cellar in Barrhaven prides itself on buying top quality juices for their local wine makers. Additionally, their signature 6 weeks process coupled with their excellent juices has won over both the hearts and taste buds of many local customers.
You can learn more about Vintner’s Cellar at www.vintnerscellarottawa.ca or by calling them at (613) 818-8785.
You can also visit their Barrhaven location at 3350 Fallowfield Road, next to McDonald’s.
How Vintner’s Cellar helps you make your own wines – and what you have to do.
Step 1
SELECT YOUR WINE
We will help you match your current tastes with over 60 varieties and quality levels of wine.
Step 2
ADD YOUR YEAST
Once you’ve selected the variety you’d like to brew, you add the yeast to the quality wine juice to start the fermentation process. That’s all you have to do until bottling time in about 6 weeks!
Step 3
FERMENTATION
Your wine will ferment for four weeks. The yeast works with the natural sugars in the juice to create alcohol and develop flavor.
Step 4
RACKING
Two weeks into fermentation, we siphon your wine into a glass carboy and remove the large-scale sediment produced from the fermentation process.
Step 5
STABILIZING
Now it’s time to stop fermentation. We siphon your wine to another glass carboy and add a stabilizing agent to completely stop any further fermentation. The wine then gets cooled down to just below 0 degrees to minimize the chance of getting tartaric crystals.
Step 6
FILTERING
We then filter your wine using a 10 pad filter machine to remove any elements that would cloud your wine resulting in a crystal clear wine that sparkles.
Step 7
DE-GASSING
Just prior to your bottling appointment (don’t worry, we will contact you!), we will remove as much CO2 from your wine as we can. This allows for a wine you can drink immediately and will still improve with aging. It is worth noting that we are one of the few vintner’s who do this!
Step 8
BOTTLING
You will bring your bottles, or purchase ours. Bottles are sanitized and cleaned using our state-of-the-art bottle washer. We will help you to bottle, cork, label and shrink wrap your wine – it is easy, fun and fast!
Step 9
LABELLING
Personalize your wine with our standard labels, or custom specialty labels.
Step 10
REPEAT!
Get $10 off any in stock variety when you start a new batch on bottling day. Save money, time and fuel and never run out of your own quality wine!
You can learn more about Vintner’s Cellar at www.vintnerscellarottawa.ca or by calling them at (613) 818-8785.
You can also visit their Barrhaven location at 3350 Fallowfield Road, next to McDonald’s.
