Barry Gnekow, consulting winemaker, Vertical Palate Wine Company, Woodbridge, CA There was the panel interview by Lance Cutler in the May 2011 issue with very high-end Napa Cabernet winemakers that extolled the use of traditional barrel head removal and barrel fermentation of those grapes—and labor cost was not a consideration. That led me to try to harness the recently-arrived-from-Europe flash technology in California for the same purpose: to increase the quality at a more reasona...