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Notes From the Winemaker - When to Harvest. In this video Paul Frankel, winemaker at Sculpterra Winery, discusses the importance of harvesting wine grapes at the perfect time, and some of the complications that can happen when everything is ripe at the same time.

Wine ages best when the barrels are full, so every 6-8 weeks the winemaker must top each barrel to compensate for evaporation. This video shows how Paul Frankel, winemaker at Sculpterra Winery, tops barrels. This is also his chance to taste the wines and evaluate them.

Notes from the Winemaker - Racking Wine. In this video Paul Frankel, winemaker at Sculpterra Winery, explains what it means to rack wine, how it is done, and why it is important.

One way to tell if wine grapes are ready to be harvested is by checking the sugar content in the grapes, this is known as checking its brix. There are many ways of doing this, in this video Paul Frankel explains how he checks the brix at Sculpterra Winery.

Here’s my newest video! We are quickly approaching harvest at Sculpterra as the berries change color from green to purple. The myriad of shades of red, purple, even blue-ish berries look dazzling! It’s an exciting time for me because it means that harvest may be a...

Leaf pulling and cluster thinning are practices we do here at Sculpterra Winery each year that have been proven to greatly increase the quality of our grapes and the resulting wine. It’s a time of year that I look forward too. It’s fun to expose the cluster and see...