sgbrix wrote:

> He sent me 2 pails of merlot(no skins)last year with their
> refrigerated shipment and yes the juice was very dark and the batch
> seem so far great?! Sure I'm out of the loop somehow. Anybody know
> what they are doing?

Some red juices use a steam extraction method, which extracts the
colour, but this juice is lacking in body, tannin and all the other
goodness that comes out of the skins during fermentation.

--
charles

"Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were
forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."
- W.C. Fields