<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"%> Site des Vins de Saint Emilion
 

 

The vat room

 

1- Wooden vats
2- Stainless steel vats
3- Cement vats

After the sorting table, the harvest goes into a destemming machine (if it has been picked by hand), to remove the grapes from the stalks.

The grapes then fall into a crusher.

he resulting juice, skins and pips are known as must. The must is put into vats to ferment. Different vats are used according to plot, varietal, terroir and so on. The vats are traditionally made of cement or stainless steel, less frequently of wood.