What's Involved???

Your wine making experience can be tailored to special events such as birthday parties, team building events, bachelorette parties, weddings & anniversaries and social gatherings. Even surprise parties.

You chooses the type of wine you would like to make from a wide range of premium wine kits. Yeast is added to the prepared juice in a large fermentation bucket, and the wine making process has began. A production label/schedule is supplied to the customer for a hands on experience. A week later the wine is racked into glass carboys and monitored for specific gravity. Two weeks later the wine is ready to be stabilized & degassed. Next the wine is racked again for clearing the wine and after 4 to 8 weeks it is filtered and is ready for bottling. (Pictured above Proprietors Carolyn Taylor and Gwendolyn Ripplinger).

      Bottles are chosen from the selection Squashed Grapes stocks, or you can bring in your own clean, unlabeled bottles. The bottles are sanitized, filled with wine and corked (using a floor corker). Shrink tops and custom labels are then added to the bottle. You can select from a wide variety of colored shrinks and labels to customize their own wine. Pictures, logos, etc. can be scanned and added to the label with the your personalized text or you can choose from a selection of pre-printed labels, just add your own text. When the process is complete, 29 bottles of premium wine are ready for gift-giving, personal consumption or to store in a private collection.

Imagine the possibilites!