Best community skins: April

Pumpovers are one of the main activities in the cellar during harvest! It’s important to wet the cap (grape skins floating on the surface) for color and flavor extraction, introduce oxygen for healthy fermentation, keep a homogeneous temperature in the tank and more. This is Bionic Wines in Walla Walla Valley, Washington, pumping over their 2024 syrah. Repost: @bionicwines If only you could smell this through the screen! We’ve been bringing in Syrah over the past week, and just look at that vibr