2022 Whitcraft Winery Stolpman Vineyard Grenache, Ballard Canyon, USA Bucklin Harvest Technique by hand

Harvest Technique by hand

planted in 1928

This range of vat sizes allows the estate to vinify the wines on a parcel by parcel basis

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2022 Whitcraft Winery Stolpman Vineyard Grenache, Ballard Canyon, USA Bucklin Harvest Technique by handGrapes are handpicked and sorted. Theyre lightly trodden by foot allowing carbonic to start. A pied de cuvee made from sampling juice is added to kick start fermentation. The wine is blanketed with CO2 until the cuvee is generating its own. After around three days when the skins start to loosen manual punchdowns are started once or twice per day. After 12 days the cap is lifted and the wine is drained through a sieve, theres no pumping, everything is