A short description of cider making

Jean-François Ritt, owner of Domaine Ritt, explains the basics of sparkling cider from its production to sale.

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[The music fades as Jean-François Ritt moves around.]

This tank is used to make the cider sparkle.

[View of a large steel tank. Jean-François Ritt stands next to it and provides explanations.]

The cider will then carbonated in this tank to produce sparkling cider.

[Close-up of a refrigeration system and return to Jean-François Ritt]

So, this tank is refrigerated with a refrigeration system.
Carbonization takes place on the other side. In fact, CO2 is injected into the tank,

[View of two carbon dioxide cylinders]

this will carbonate the product. Then, once the product is carbonated, after 24 hours,

[Jean-François Ritt stands near the bottling machine and then steps forward so as to position the bottles to be filled. Close-up of bottles being filled with cider.]

we’ll send it to the bottle filler, which is over there, which fills the bottles with carbonated cider. The bottles are corked, of course, once they are filled.

[View of two men working behind a machine that puts corks into the bottles of cider.]

And these bottles will be placed in wooden crates like this.

[Jean-Fançois Ritt points to a large wooden crate full of bottles.]

The bottles will be washed so that they’re clean. They’ll be left to dry.

[A woman sprays the bottles in the wooden crate with a garden hose.]

They’re then sent to the warehouse while waiting to be labelled and placed on shelves.