Winemaking: Grapes to Juice with David Cowderoy

The workshop is being held at Furleigh Estate on Wednesday, 25 July, 2012, starting at 10:00 and finishing at 16:00.

This course will provide a complete overview of all the steps involved from harvest to fermentation for still and sparkling wines. White, red and rosé. The course content is both practical and theoretical and assumes that the participant is already converse with most aspects of wine production.

Subject matter will include:

  • Evaluating harvest parameters and deciding when to pick
  • Methods and options for handling and transporting grapes
  • Crushers, destemmers and must-pumps – Key factors that affect quality, operational considerations and choice of equipment
  • Presses and pressing
    • Key factors that affect quality and choice of equipment
    • The options for pressing cycles and how to optimise them
    • Separation of juice fractions
    • Practical considerations
    • Juice quality modifications treatments – proteinaceous fining agents, bentonite, hyper-oxidation
      • Juice clarification – options and application
      • De-acidification
      • Capitalisation
      • Dissolved oxygen pickup – causes and effects
      • Key points for hygiene
      • Handling botrytised and poor quality fruit

    David Cowderoy has a post graduate diploma in Oenology and Viticulture from Roseworthy College, Australia, and a BSc in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. He began his career at one of the UK earliest vineyards, Rock Lodge, and was central to the creation of Chapel Down, where he was winemaker until 1999. He has been a winemaker for over 20 years in most regions around the world, and worked out of countless wineries. He has his own 12ha domaine in the Minervois region of France. As group Winemaker at Waverly a division of Scottish & Newcastle he was in charge of QA and QC, HACCP for an annual production of 2 million cases.

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    Venue Address:

    Furleigh Estate
    Salway Ash
    Bridport
    Dorset
    DT6 5JF

    Tag(s): 
    winemaking
    Region: 
    South West