winemaking
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- Process
- Grapes
- Harvesting and destemming
- Crushing and primary (alcoholic) fermentation
- Pressing
- Pigeage
- Cold stabilization
- Secondary (malolactic) fermentation and bulk aging
- Malolactic fermentation
- Laboratory tests
- Blending and fining
- Preservatives
- Filtration
- Bottling
- Regulation
- Winemakers
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Wine grapes from the Guadalupe Valley in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine-making stretches over millennia. There is evidence that suggests that the earliest wine production took place in Georgia and Iran around 6000 to 5000 B.C. The science of wine and winemaking is known as oenology. A winemaker may also be called a vintner. The growing of grapes is viticulture and there are many varieties of grapes.