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Viticulture The Estate Vine Spacing Gobelet Method Grape Varieties Enology Wines Estate Bottling Barrels Other Considerations Assemblage Aging Berries Blending Cellar Temperature Cold Soaking Fermentation Fining Grape Maturity Harvesting Lot Separation Other Materials Picking Pressing Pumping Racking Sulfur Dioxide Stability Thinning Water Stress Yeast Enology Considerations Fining The wines are usually not fined.  But if not perfectly brilliant or a bit astringent they may receive a light egg white fining in the barrel after the winter of the second year.  If this occurs the wine is racked off the fining a month later.

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