Separation: nf Separation is an operation consisting of separating the grapes from the peduncles and pedicels of the bunch before transferring the grapes to fermentation tanks. It is also often said: destemming or de-stemming. In the past, we scraped by hand.
From now on, we use a destemmer (also called foulo-grappe). Separation increases the alcohol content of red wines by approximately 0.5° due to the absence of exchanges that normally occur between the must and the stalks that...
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