How to produce wine

Long before you harvest your first crop of grapes you will have had to plan what to do with it. Many smaller vineyards simply sell their crop to a local winery that then produces a wine. At the moment you could estimate to get between 0.20 and 0.40 Euros per kilo of vine grapes. Or you can make a wine yourself. This is what I would like to do, a simple wine, from my very own vineyard! Making your own wine requires a lot of investing in equipment, such as wine-tanks and oak barrels (if you want to produce a higher quality wine) as well as de-steamers and presses. If you are going to make a higher quality wine you will need to store the wine for 1-3 years to mature, preferably in oak barrels. If you make 50 000 litres of wine and want to store it for 2 years you will actually need a minimum of 100 000 litters of oak barrel storage and wine barrels cost a lot! It is of course a lot cheaper to make (ferment) the wine in steel tanks and then also store it in the very same tanks, and as soon as possible after that bottle the wine. Bottling equipment and corkers are other things that are on your “to buy” list if this is the way you want to go. Things like bottling equipment is available fully hand powered, no electricity needed and this is probably what would suite me, as I also plan to run my vineyard ecologic!

Normally you can calculate 700 bottles of wine on every ton of grapes produced. Time to start looking for that rural property, now you know how big it has to be!

Simple facts and info.

1. It normally takes 1 kg of grapes to produce one 70ml bottle of wine. This means that on one ton (1000 kg) of grapes you get 700 litres of wine.

2. Price of grapes if you plan to sell them to a winery is about 0.20 - 0.40 euro per kilo. This is for the simplest type of grapes, not classified and non organic.

3. On one acre of land you can estimate a grape production of 2 to 3 tons, but this could be much less or more, but as a basic rule it works.

4. On one acre of land you can calculate a yearly production of about 1500 to 2000 bottles of wine.

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Simple but interesting info on vineyards

This page has some "short" general rules that could help you in your way to start a vineyard. All calculations of estimated production per acre or how much grapes to make a bottle wine is all estimated. There are now easy ways of saying this exact as there are so many factors that play part in this.