Make Wine With Us - Upcoming Wine Events

Join us for some of our fun wine making events!

All dates and times subject to change.

Intro to Winemaking (Wine of the Month Club)

Take winemaking to the next level! Participate in a fun filled and educational winemaking event filled with great food and great people. Learn about topics ranging from tannin, sugar, alcohol, wine faults, and acids in wine.

Enjoy a night out with wine-lovers just like you. You and a guest will enjoy cheese, crackers, a hot/cold buffet style dinner, coffee, and dessert while you taste several varietals of our homemade wine throughout the evening. Each couple will participate in ONE of our winemaking steps such as crushing, pressing, or bottling and leave with their very own case of wine to take home that night. Cost of event includes yearly membership to Wine of the Month Club and ABC license (required by NJ State Law).

What is Barrel Tasting?

The goal of Barrel Tasting is to introduce people to wines still in the barrel, and to help them learn about wine and better understand what they taste and to offer partnerships in wine.

A Barrel Tasting is an opportunity to join a wine group now, with an opportunity to get in on a terrific barrel of wine, then come back to the winery and bottle the wine with your new found wine lovers, typically months from now.

You will taste wine as it goes through its barrel development from a young wine to one that is ready to be bottled and enjoyed.

There are a number of stages that the wines go through while it’s in the barrel. The first stage is usually the finishing of fermentation, which takes about 4 to 6 weeks. The second stage of red wines is Malolactic fermentation, which changes the tart-tasting malic acid into the softer-tasting lactic acid. A wine undergoing malolactic conversion will be cloudy due to the presence of bacteria, may be fizzy and may have the curious smell of buttered popcorn. The next stage is racking, where the dead yeast and solids from putting the wines in the barrel are removed (called the Lees) and the barrel is topped off.

When you attend different barrel tasting you will start to get an understanding of the various stage wine goes through in the barrel and what the wine-master experiences to know when the wine is ready to bottle.

Come out to Make Wine With Us to barrel taste all your favorite wines and some new ones to make new favorites!