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Massaging grapes to produce better wine

By Don Giovanni
February 10, 2009 in Wine

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Massaging grapes to produce better wine

Italian vintner Stefania Pepe is a supporter of biodynamic agriculture and even massages her grapes before turning them into wine.

She is some woman...I need to taste some of this wine...so natural...

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She built her winery 30 feet underground so that she could use gravity at every stage in the wine making process.
"When the grape is pressed, the juice runs down. When you need to keep the temperature cool, you have nature keeping it cool. We bottle by hand. There is no filtering. Everything I do, I do to be in harmony with nature.
"And it shows in the wine," she said smiling. "I believe that a single person can do one thing to make the word a little better. This is my one thing."

John D. Zuccarino

WWW.SilverSpringsWinery.com

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