Comprehensive Contract Winemaking Services

At Vivid Wines we provide high quality professional contract winemaking services for small to medium-sized companies, allowing them to focus on growing exceptional fruit and concentrate on building their own brand.

Our services offer peace of mind that your grapes will be taken care of by an experienced and professional winemaker.

Our contract winemaking services encompass from regular visits to our clients vineyards and pre-harvest analysis, through to the winemaking process and ready to market bottled wine.

Vivid Wines combines expertise in viticulture and enology delivering hand-crafted premium still and sparkling wines.

We understand how precious your grapes are and concentrate our skills and passion on a minimalist approach to maintain and enhance the typicity of your fruit.

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Our clients are encouraged to work closely with Vivid Wines and may choose a fully inclusive processing or select from the range of services below to suit their individual requirements.

Harvest:

  • Pre-Vintage consultations on wine styles
  • Vineyard visits
  • Fruit sample analysis
  • Fruit reception and weighing
  • All fruit intake will be recorded with digital image, temperature and conditions. A docket, available to the client at all times, will be created to accompany the product through all winemaking steps until it leaves the premises in its final stage.

Grape Processing:

  • Immediate processing of each batch
  • Lab analysis of must
  • Whole bunch pressing or de-stemming
  • Cold maceration if required
  • Additions post de-stemmer include enzymes and SO2
  • Pressing to various fractions as requested

Winemaking:

  • Use of temperature controlled winery tanks
  • Cold settling and racking
  • Yeast inoculation
  • Twice daily monitoring and graphing of fermentation
  • Addition of DAP and Vitamin to secure healthy fermentation
  • Barrel fermentation and lees stirring
  • Pump-overs and Cap-management
  • Malolactic fermentation and tests
  • Acidity adjustment
  • Cold and heat stabilisation
  • Fining trials and fining
  • Filtration
  • Barrel aging and inherent barrel works
  • Full pre-bottling analysis

Sparkling Wine:

  • Bottling of white, rosé or red still wine for second fermentation
  • Maturation
  • Lees-aging, minimum period is 9 months
  • Riddling
  • Disgorging
  • Dosaging
  • Corking and Wirehooding