Are you looking to try something new with your work team? Would you like to celebrate a loved one and have a hands on experience in a funky little craft winemaking warehouse? This it the perfect venue for your next event! We can accommodate 10-20 guests for a wine bottling party.
* 4 Week Best Value Wines not included.
Our Cork It crew members are wine experts! We are dedicated to figuring out what type of wine or cider will best suit your palette. As a customer, you are required to pay for all ingredients before starting the fermentation process and sign the necessary documents. You will then pour the juice into a primary fermenter, add water, applicable wine additives, and sprinkle the yeast to initiate fermentation. Voila! You’re on the path to making your very own wine! Its that easy! We take care of the rest until the bottling process.
Approximately 14 days later, we test the wine using a hydrometer to measure alcohol levels. When the fermentation process is complete, we rack the wine from our primary fermenter into a carboy. We add clearing and stabilizing ingredients and let the wine settle for another 14-28 days depending on the wine kit you’ve chosen as each process is different. Barrel aged wines will be an additional 3-6 months. When the wine becomes clear and the sediment has settled, we will then rack the clear product and put your wine through the final process of filtration to ensure there is no sediment.
When your wine is ready, we give you a call and you can book an appointment . You will sterilize your bottles using our bottle washing system to ensure they are sanitary before filling. Our automatic bottle filler and corking machine are convenient and easy to use. Once you’ve corked your bottles, you can choose one of many labels and shrink wraps to finalize the packaging. Get creative! Our customers are proud to show off their dressed up bottles while entertaining their guests! Ask about making custom labels for weddings and events $20 per batch (30 labels) The best part of course is enjoying a glass or two of your wine, the longer you age your reds, the better they get!
Our Cork It crew members are wine experts! We are dedicated to figuring out what type of wine or cider will best suit your palette. As a customer, you are required to pay for all ingredients before starting the fermentation process and sign the necessary documents. You will then pour the juice into a primary fermenter, add water, applicable wine additives, and sprinkle the yeast to initiate fermentation. Voila! You’re on the path to making your very own wine! Its that easy! We take care of the rest until the bottling process.
Approximately 14 days later, we test the wine using a hydrometer to measure alcohol levels. When the fermentation process is complete, we rack the wine from our primary fermenter into a glass carboy. We add clearing and stabilizing ingredients and let the wine settle for another 14-28 days depending on the wine kit you’ve chosen as each process is different. We will then rack the clear product, degass it to remove any extra CO2 and filter it to ensure there is no sediment.
When your wine is ready, we give you a call and you can book an appointment during our convenient business hours. You will sterilize your bottles using our bottle washing system to ensure they are sanitary before filling. Our automatic bottle filler and corking machine are convenient and easy to use. Once you’ve corked the bottles you can choose one of many labels and shrink wraps from our huge selection. Get creative! Our customers are proud to show off their dressed up bottles while entertaining their guests! Ask about making custom labels for weddings and events $10 per batch (30 labels) The best part of course is enjoying a glass or two of your wine, the longer you age it the better it get
Here are a few of the most common questions we get asked, if you can’t find the answer you’re looking for please contact us
All of our wine kits (4,5,6,and 8 week) make 30-750ml bottles. If you’re making Sherry, Port or Ice wine, one kit makes 30-375ml bottles or 15-750ml bottles.
Of course lots of groups bottle at Cork It, it’s a great way of trying different kinds of wine without breaking the bank. Bring some snacks and have fun, we have a great sound system and some people bring their own music too! Contact us for bottling appointments.
Everything! Wine, all taxes, our service fees, corks, shrink wraps, labels, and bottles if you’re a first time customer. First time customers can choose between 25$ off of their wine kit or a set of 30 bottles free.
Relax, you have at least 4-8 weeks depending on your particular wine kit to collect bottles, raid your friends recycling bins and save all your bottles from the liquor store. Our corking machine can cork twist off cap bottles as well as regular wine bottles. If you can’t get enough bottles together before your bottling appointment we have a selection of new and used bottles for sale here.
Anywhere from $110.00 up to $235.00 We have a large variety of wines ranging from 4 week kits up to 6 month big barrel aged wines. If you sign up for our e-mail newsletter on the homepage you can get even better sale prices on select wine kits. As always seniors receive a 10% discount on all wine kits except for our premium 8 week grape skin wines and kits already on sale.
Depending on your speed and weather or not you want to put on labels/shrink wraps, bottling can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 1 hour. We book all of our appointments 1 hour apart so you won’t feel rushed.
The main difference between a 4 week wine and an 8 week wine is the length of time required to complete the wine-making process.
A 4 week wine is designed to produce wine relatively quickly, and typically involves a shorter fermentation period and a simpler, more streamlined process. These kits often use concentrated grape juice and may require less aging time, resulting in a wine that is ready to drink sooner than an 8 week.
On the other hand, an 8 week wine typically requires a longer fermentation period and may involve more complex steps such as racking, adding secondary ingredients and clarifying the wine. These wines use higher quality grape juice and grape skins, resulting in a more complex and nuanced wine with a greater depth of flavor. It will also require longer aging before it is ready to drink, so be sure to give it time in the cellar.