SFChron: Bonne's Hot Picks on New Wineries

In today's SFChron, JonBonne has his picks for hot new Calif wineries:
SFChron:HotNewWineries

Here's your golden opportunity to follow 'em from the very start.
Some familiar names there, some new ones as well.
Tom

[Jenise]

Great article, thanks for calling our attention to it. But a phrase I read there has me scratching my head. What would "semi-carbonic maceration" be?

grapes fermented on the back of a large truck, of course!

Great article, thanks for calling our attention to it. But a phrase I read there has me scratching my head. What would "semi-carbonic maceration" be?

It means that some of the grapes are crushed while the rest are fermented whole cluster. It's a common practice these days in Beaujolais (and elsewhere).

Mark Lipton

Denner hardly qualifies as new.

[Jenise]

Jim,

Off topic: I see Gorman has the Rose of Virginia.

The technique of (what we now call) carbonic maceration fermentation (or some form of it) dates back to the to the very beginning of winemaking. Up until the wider use of mechanically crushing devices and presses this technique (or some form of it) was “common practice”.
I like Steve’s reply. “Semi” more or less to me indicates an “unintentional” carbonic maceration. A “partial” carbonic maceration would indicate to me an “intentional” carbonic maceration.

Salute

Jim,

Off topic: I see Gorman has the Rose of Virginia.

I haven't been over there since the last time I was there with you. But I think I'm going to have to drop in at SH for a half case. You ordering?

Back on topic!