Notes From the Winemaker – Pressing

After wine finishes fermentation the skins are gently pressed to extract every last drop of wine contained within them. In this video Paul Frankel explains how this process is done here at Sculpterra Winery.

Harvest 2015 – Grenache

The 2015 Harvest continues! Here are pictures from our Grenache harvest. This is a great block on our estate property, it’s only 1.6 acres but still produced over 10 tons of great, high quality fruit. This fruit will be used in a straight Grenache, a Rosé, and...

Pistachio Harvest 2015

Harvesting pistachios is an interesting process. Most pistacios are harvested using a mechanical shaker that drives through the rows of trees shaking each tree and gathering all the pistachios that fall. The smaller trees however have to be hand-harvested using a pipe...