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A grower might know they can get a yield of 5 tons of quality fruit and sell it for $3,000 per ton, giving a gross profit of $15,000 per acre.

Depending on the grape variety, you should yield about 2-2.5 gallons of must per case. A good rule of thumb is that 20lbs of grapes will yield roughly 1 gallon of finished wine.

Pressing The Grapes When grapes or must are pressed, we like to estimate yield at about 6.5 gallons per hundred pounds.

You'll need about 85 to 90 pounds (39 to 41 kg) of fresh grapes (still on their stems) to make five gallons of wine. It will start off at about 2.5 lug boxes of grapes and will end up as about 25 bottles, or two cases, of wine.

In addition to land lease/ownership expenses, your budget should include approximately $8,000 per acre over a three-year period. After the first three years, the crops should be producing grapes, reducing your annual costs to $1,500-$2,000 per acre.

Although vineyards are associated with a relatively high investment (compared to annual crops), they can be very profitable. Winegrape growers have two options: selling grapes to cellars and brokers, or making their wine and selling it.

Continuing to use the 1 ton of grapes = 210 gallons of must equation, this will result in about 120 gallons of wine which equals 600, 750 ml bottles or 50 cases (12 bottles per case).

A typical grape vine will produce about 40 grape clusters. A rule of thumb for grape growers is that a typical vine will produce about 10 bottles of wine. So, 40 grape clusters X 100 grapes per cluster = 4,000 grapes to make 10 bottles, or 400 grapes to make one bottle.