Jaorga Vineyard

Today on our drive to Sydney, we stopped at a winery and vineyard outside a town called Mittagong.  We first walked around the vineyard, which is a field of grapes used for making wine.  There were acres of grape vines, but not one of them had grapes because in the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are opposite, and in Australia, it is currently fall.  After the vineyard, we walked around the winery, which is the space used to turn the grapes into wine.  First, the grapes are mashed and seeded (in the case of red grapes being used for a white wine, the skins are also removed).  After that, red wine grapes go straight into kegs or giant stainless steel containers warmed up and with yeast for fermentation and the white wine grapes sit for thirty days to ferment cold before being transferred to kegs or stainless steel containers to ferment more.  After the fermentation (the sugars from the grapes and the yeast creates ethanol, an edible alcohol), the wine is aged and filtered, and is ready for bottling.
After the vineyard and winery, we drove the rest of the way to Sydney where we stayed the night.