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[VinoTrac Blog] I know winemakers like their tools but personally, I’m not a fan of the punch down tool. This is really only possible because my batch sizes are manageable and not dealing with macro bins galore so this technique isn’t exactly practical for everyone.

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[Left Coast Cowboys] Winemaking: Not the Mondavi Way, But Not the Ancient Armenian ...: driving the ATV up to the vineyards where crews are picking, hoisting vats of grapes into the vehicle, racing down the hill, hauling the bins out, dropping grapes bunch by bunch into the crusher/destemmer, then dumping the crushed grapes, bin by bin, into the primary fermentation vat. The end result was that, if two tons of grapes were picked by the harvest crew, Cousin John, Andy and I would lift those two tons of grapes at least two more times, vat by vat, until we got them into their final resting place.

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[Production blog] Crushing the Monte Rosso Zinfandel « Production blog: Crushing red grapes is a pretty different process than crushing whites. It starts off the same, with the grapes being dumped into the hopper.

[4488: A Ridge Blog] 6 Comments - A Ridge Blog - Ridge Vineyards: Our beloved hoses, once inside the winery, begin the process of allocating out fruit to the appropriate fermentation tanks. If you’re a zinfandel grape, it’s quite likely you might go into a special kind of tank with a screen inside that can be used to submerge the “cap”

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