Wine Lead Time

Whether you are making wine to be consumed at your wedding or to hand out as a gift to all your guests, you want to ensure you provide enough time for your wine to ferment and bottle age.

An ultra premium wine will typically require 6 to 8 weeks before the wine is ready to bottle and a further 2 to 6 months to bottle age.

 

White Wines

For white wines we recommend that once you bottle  your wine, you further age it in the bottle for another 2 to 3 months before serving it at your wedding.

For example if your wedding is on July 1st you will want to go into the store to make your wine by mid February. You could then bottle it at the end of March and have 3 months for your wine to mature in the bottle, making it  just perfect on your wedding day.
 

Red Wines

Red wines require a little be more time to bottle age; however, the resulting wine will show great depth of flavour.  You will want to bottle age red wine from an ultra premium kit for a minimum of 4 months before serving.

For example, if your wedding is on July 1st , the latest you will want to go into the store to make your wine is early January. You could then bottle it by mid February and have 4 months for it to bottle age.

The earlier you make your wine the more time it will have allowing the flavours to fully develop, so the wait will definitely be worth it!