How to Make Wine with Julie Johnson: Veraison WINE TV

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Winemaking 101 with Julie Johnson: Veraison

The summer travel season may be in full swing for most folks but for winemakers and grape growers there is no rest for the weary. Now is the time when the grapes start to show their true colors and come to life. On July 26, 2013, I headed back to Tres Sabores Winery in St. Helena to continue my video series on How to make wine with Julie Johnson.

In our first video, How to Make Wine with Julie Johnson: Bloom, the grapes were in bloom now they are in veraison. Veraison might be hard to say but it's pretty easy to explain, it's a grape-growing term that means "the onset of ripening." The exact definition of the originally French word is: "change of color of the grape berries." In this wine video, Julie Johnson shows me (Monique Soltani :)) where we are at in the grape growing process as we continue our winemaking journey going from grape to glass!

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