Stem inclusion can add more tannins and structure to the finished wine, but can also impart additional flavors. If the clusters are picked early in ... Destemming: The process of removing the grape ...

Beneath the warm sun of a June afternoon, Sylvain Pataille bends down to inspect a cluster of white ... all-but-forgotten white grape, long shunned in favor of nobler Chardonnay, has found favor ...