

Find quality adult beverage products to add to your Shopping List or order. The wine from each tank is taste-tested, and put in toasted oak barrels to age. Shop for Francis Coppola Diamond Collection Claret Red Wine (750 mL) at Kroger. The Coppola Winery in Sonoma County has become a tourist destination Delicato is taking over it and its brands. The crushed grapes and juice are then sent to ferment for about two weeks in open-air tanks that can hold up to 55 tons of liquid. Once the grapes are picked and the majority of the leaves are removed by hand, they’re headed to a crushing machine that is harsh enough to break the skins, but not so harsh that it crushes the seeds, which would release bitterness into the wines. Two More Glasses (A Little Bit More Trading Limited) was founded by two wine and spirits enthusiasts and is one of the most active. The higher-quality wines need hand picking, explains Beck, to keep out as many leaves as possible, and as not to disturb the more sensitive branches and vines. A team of skilled pickers meets them and blitzes the vines, pulling off hundreds of clumps of grapes in the blink of an eye. He begins out in the field, where the EVP of production and chief winemaker Corey Beck shows him cabernet sauvignon grape vines that were planted in the mid-’80s. On this episode of Dan Does, host Daniel Geneen visits the company’s reserve vineyard in Geyserville, California, and observes the entire process from vine to bottle. Even in the days where automation is king, the workers at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery rely on as many hands-on and old-world techniques as they do new-school ones when it comes to making wine.
