Contract Winemaking Contract Winemaking Service

Contact: Owen Latta

Mobile : 0408059454

Email: owen@easternpeake.com.au

Owen Latta offers contract winemaking services at Eastern Peake to the Pyrenees, Grampians, Macedon, Ballarat, and Sunbury regions using traditional methods and new world technology. The wines produced are crafted in a progression not a process so that the finished wine is true to style and its terroir. The service includes the procedure of turning the delivered fruit into a finished wine ready for bottling which can take approximately 8-20 months depending on the style required and potential of the fruit.

RED WINES (depending on season and variety)

  • Whole bunch additions (if needed)
  • Crushing and de-stemming of grapes
  • Laboratory/Sensory Analysis
  • Cold Soak
  • Yeast inoculation
  • Plunging twice a day (or pumping over)
  • Ferment checks twice a day
  • Extended Maceration (depending on season and variety)
  • Pressing (Airbag or Basket)
  • Oak barrel or tank maturation
  • Wine racked off primary lees 
  • Laboratory/Sensory Analysis
  • Fining of wine
  • Filtration (not always needed)
Extra Costs:

Barrels, Topping up wine, SO2 checks, Malo tests, and Bottling

WHITE WINES (depending on season and variety)

  • Whole Bunch Press (or crushing and destemming of grapes)
  • Pressing (Airbag)
  • Laboratory/Sensory Analysis
  • Cold settling
  • Juice racked off solids (lees)
  • Yeast inoculation
  • Cooling controlled fermentation (12°C)
  • Ferment checks twice a day
  • Tanks to prevent oxidation of white and rosé wines
  • Wine racked off yeast solids
  • Oak barrel or tank maturation
  • Laboratory/Sensory Analysis
  • Wine racked off from lees
  • Fining of wine ( Predominately Skim Milk. But can be Gelatine, Isen glass, casein)
  • Protein stability (Bentonite)
  • Cold stabilisation (0°C)
  • Filtration
  • Laboratory/Sensory Analysis

Extra Costs:
Barrels, Topping up wine, SO2 checks, and Bottling