How to Videos

Step 1-choosing your wine kit, mixing, and starting the fermenting process

Your second visit with your wine is “degassing.”  This step is most crucial and MUST be completed by you, 2 weeks after starting your kit.  You transfer your wine from the fermentation bucket to a glass carboy, add a few ingredients, and your wine goes back in the Wine Cellar for a couple more weeks.

The third step is an optional step for you and is usually done by us because it only takes 5 minutes.  If you’d like, you can come in to watch.  We transfer your wine from one carboy to another, discarding any sediment that has accumulated.

The final step to making your wine from a wine kit at Once Upon a Vine is Bottling Day! This is always the most fun step of them all. You sanitize your bottles, fill them with your wine, put corks in them, shrink wrap the PVC sleeves on the bottles, put them in their cases, and take them home!