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More Bottling and More Tasting

03.31.2010

Beth Mort
I actually got to go to the winery over the weekend and finally help bottle! This is great for me because I recently just finished up graduate school and so it felt like a little vacation. The rest of the family – Ma and Pa Sanborn – came out to help also so the [...]

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Racking

06.17.2009

Racking, or moving the wine from one container to another, is performed to separate lees or sediment from the wine.  In some red wine production, the introduction of a little oxygen is also beneficial to flavor and color development. To start, we lift full barrels about 10 feet in the air and siphon the wine into [...]

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