Grape Pressing 2026

The next step in our Wine making Process took place today. We ran all our grape pulp and juice through the fruit press, squeezing out every drop of grape juice, and discarded the pulp.

We pressed both our Tempranillo and Ellen's Syrah.

Here you can see Ellen loading a bowl full of pulp into the press as the very young wine drains into the bowl below and transferred to the carboy.

We ended up with a little over 6gallons of juice for both wines, so we took the excess and combined them into a blend, a 50/50 Syrah-Nillo. 

We won't get many bottles out of that but it's a fun experiment.