A Great wine start with great grapes. A grape determine the basic fruit-flavor characteristics, aroma and taste, of your wine. Grapes are a type of fruit that grow in clusters of 15 to 300, and can be crimson, black, dark blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink. White grapes are actually green in color, and are evolutionarily derived from the purple grape. Mutations in two regulatory genes of white grapes turn off production of anthocyanins, which are responsible for the color of purple grapes. Anthocyanins and other pigment chemicals of the larger family of polyphenols in purple grapes are responsible for the varying shades of purple in red wines. Grapes are typically an ellipsoid shape resembling a prolate spheroid. We have a variaties of grape that grow in our wineyard which are:

• Cabernet Sauvignon
• Chardon
• Merlot
• Pinot noir
• Sauvignon blanc
• Syrah
• Zinfandel

Fermentation

 



 

 

 

 

 

Our wine have our unit taste, becouse the process of the fermenting. wich is simple doing the fermentation that is where the sugar conversts into alcohol.The process of fermentation in winemaking turns the grape juice into an alcoholic beverage. During fermentation, yeasts transform sugars present in the juice into ethanol and carbon dioxide. In winemaking, the temperature and speed of fermentation are important considerations as well as the levels of oxygen present in the must at the start of the fermentation. The fermentation requires two things: sugar and yeasts.

A natural wine is fermented only with the wild yeast native to its terroir, the yeast strains vary widely from place to place and contribute significantly to the odour of the finished wine. The yeasts indigenous to a particular area are an important part of what gives its wines their character. Conventionally grown grapes have little or no wild yeast living on their skin.

The level of alcohol in the finished wine is determinet by the level of sugar in the grapes from which it is made. More sugar means there is more for the yeast to convert into alcohol. Grapes grown further north see less sun and therefore contain less stored sugar than those grown in the south. Traditionally, therefore, northern wines contain a lower level of alcohol.

 

vineyard

 



 

 

 

 

 

What sets Monte apart is our careful attention to wineyard practices, such as canopy management and controlling yields, as well as our delicate handling of the fruit and wine throughout its time in the winery. As a result Monte signature wines are elegant, balanced, well-structured and integrated,great with food or by themselves, and approachable in their youth but having a structure to improve for years to come. Our wineyard are located in california in 3 different areas such as:

• Oakville
• Lompoc
• Cazadero