Pressing for red wine

This is where the glamour of winemaking fades a bit for me. The free run wine is drained and transferred from the vats to leave the grape skins and sediment (marc). This material is removed from the vats with a pitch fork, thrown through the vat door into a hopper over a large pump. It is then transferred to the press to extract some more wine…’pressings’. The dregs are sent to the local distillery.

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