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Silver Mountain Vineyards has earned a reputation for creating world-class premier wines by paying attention to each and every detail, from harvest through bottling.

Mountain Harvest
As the harvest approaches, we monitor the grapes daily to determine the exact moment when natural sugars and acids are in complete harmony. The grapes are then handpicked, which allows the selection of only those clusters that are perfectly ripe.

The Best of the Old World and New World
Our organic grapes are then processed under the expert leadership of winemaker and founder Jerold O'Brien. To bring out the character of our wines, Silver Mountain employs two old world processes - extended maceration and gravity drainovers, plus a modern technique known as a pulse air system.

Extended Maceration
Extended maceration is the term for keeping grapes in the fermenter for an extended period of time. In winemaking, grapes are typically fermented for 5 to 10 days. During Silver Mountain's fermenting process, grapes remain in our temperature-controlled tanks for approximately 30 to 35 days. This allows us to extract more flavor and color from the grapes, while minimizing tannin.

Hand Punch-Downs and Our State-of-the-Art Pulse Air
Through the fermenting process, a thick cake of grape skins forms at the top of the fermenter, floating on top of the juice underneath. Most wineries engage in pumping over, which is rough on the wine and does not thoroughly blend the grape skins with the juice. Only premium wineries, such as Silver Mountain, punch down. Punching down is the process of breaking up the cake to mix the skins and the juice underneath. This imparts more flavor and color to the juice. In 2006 Silver Mountain added new tanks that use pulse air to break the cap and aerate the wine, which is even gentler than manual punchdowns. The winery is entirely gravity-fed, from delivering the newly-harvested fruit to bottling.

Rich Results
The result is wines with layers of rich flavor and an exquisite aroma—wines with enough substance to last in the bottle, yet ready to be enjoyed upon opening as well.

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