Some Wines Need Blood to Exist: “the Bleeding Method Has Existed for Years, but No One Tells it.”

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The techniques in the wine world are as extensive as they are strange. Barrel, maceration, overmaturation or solera are terms that — although we don't always know how to define perfectly — are familiar to us. However, there are practices that, as old and barbaric as they seem, are still being done today. One of them is the method of bleeding. Blood spillage in wine is certainly not one of the easiest topics in the wine world.Keep reading...