Which raises the question: Is that really how they still make wine ... are we literally drinking barefoot wine? The answer: sometimes. Crushing grapes is an important part of the winemaking ...

And while the romanticized image of grape crushing often involves ... work with when compared to wine, it takes about 100 ...

Like almost all red grapes, the flesh of a Pinot Noir grape is pale green, which means that if you crush ... a wine made from ...

which means that if you crush the grapes and drain the juice off the skins before it takes on any color, you will have a white wine. The Champenois, of course, have known about this for centuries ...