FUN FACTS!
- 1 ton of grapes = about 150 gallons of homemade wine (winery presses recover slightly more juice than home winemaking presses can!)
- SO to make 5 finished gallons of homemade wine you need about 75 lbs of grapes
- AND to make enough finished wine to fill a used 60 gal barrel you will need 1000 lbs of grapes (this should give you enough wine to cope with racking losses)
- 1 case = 12 750 ml bottles = 9 L / 3.785 L/gal = 2.3775 gal per case
- SO a 5 gal demi-john will give you about 2 cases (24 bottles)
- AND bottling a 60 gal barrel will provide about 25 cases (300 bottles)
- 1 Merlot or Cabernet cluster weighs, on average, about 1/3 lb
- SO a full picking lug of grapes, which normally holds about 35 lbs of fruit, would contain about 100 clusters
- AND, since one ton of grapes contains about 57 lugs or 5700 grape clusters AND one ton makes about 150 gals, 1 cluster provides .026 gallons WHICH MEANS that there are about 8 clusters of grapes in each 750 bottle of wine!