Technique used in the preparation of red wine; see under autovinification.
Special technique for making red wine in order to achieve intensive extraction of the colouring agents and tannins from the grape skins. The process was developed in Algeria in the early 1960s under the name Ducellier system. Autovinification is derived from the self-renewing process. The grapes, which are generally destemmed and ground, are pumped into a...
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