Here's a clip of a young Spy Valley couple caught in the act of performing the perverse French practice known as 'pigeage a pied'!!
Quelle horreur!!
(grape stomping with the feet) from the 2010 harvest.
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- Wine tour operator, wine writer and lapsed physiotherapist. "Nature abhors a vacuum. I personally hate dusting."
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go check out the open concrete/waxed fermenters at Esk Valley Estate......much more rustic!!
ReplyDeleteThey still have the old square concrete fermenters at Kumeu River too - tho not waxed any more
ReplyDeleteLooks to me as if they are plunging fresh pinot noir rather than crushing grapes, I know that is how it is done in France
ReplyDeleteHi Ray - I'm prett sure they are crushing freshly picked grapes - if they were plunging the cap they'd disappear below the surface!
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