A person harvesting a whole cluster of wine grape bunch from a vine

Whole Cluster Fermentation

Whole cluster (or bunch) fermentation is the process by which everything goes into the fermentation process.  Skins, seeds, stems, you name it.  The invention of the de-stemmer revolutionized wine, but could you imagine Burgundian winemakers in the 1800s hand picking each berry to get all the stems off? …