Wine Word of the Week: Punching down

This week?s Wine Word of the Week is punching down. Official definition from Jancis Robinson?s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Punching down is the winemaking operation of breaking up and submerging the cap of skins and other solids during red wine fermentation to stop the cap from drying out, to encourage the extraction of color [...]

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