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The 2011 Grape Crush Begins at Lynfred Winery

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Uploaded by on Sep 19, 2011

Yesterday Lynfred Winery Cellar Assistant Jose made the trip to Correll Vineyards in Newton, Illinois to pick up 14 half-ton bins of grapes. The 2011 grape crush at Lynfred began this morning with 2.35 tons of Norton and 3.5 tons of Chambourcin. In this video I captured on my Droid you can see the grapes being moved to the crusher and de-stemmer and eventually through the pump hoses to our grape press. The grape press will press out the juice which will be moved to stainless steel tanks. You might notice we are crushing and pressing red grapes right away in the video (treating them like we would white grapes), it's because we're trying to make a rose with the Chambourcin. Normally red grapes ferment on the skins, but to make a rose you have to separate the juice from the skins before too much color is extracted. Upon entering the tanks the grape juice will be inoculated (yeast added) and the fermentation process will begin.

In this video: Assistant Winemaker Lora Meredith, Cellar Master Manuel Torres and Cellar Assistant Rene Tellez.

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