Winery Visit-Tres Suenos
For my last winery visit of this class, we decided to take a trip to visit Tres Suenos Winery in Luther, Oklahoma. After following old dirt roads, we came across beautiful rows of grapes leading up to the winery. We went inside and met up with Christy who owns the winery. She had purchased the winery about a year ago to use the property as a wedding venue. Her and her husband decided since there were grape vines already on the property, why not give the wine making a try. Christy is glad they made the leap to make the wine, because business is booming! They had the reds and whites separated out in front of the property. The winery produces 11 different kinds of wines out of 12 different grape species. Christy showed me where they picked the grapes and stored them in a huge cooler until they were ready to go through the de-stemmer. By cooling the grapes, it stops the natural process of fermentation that will occur within the grapes. The grapes would then be de-stemmed whi...