Fermenting wine and THEN pressing it?

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I'm watching this food show on hulu, Avec Eric (Ripert) and he is touring a commercial winery and they are showing the wine being fermented first and then being pressed out of the skins.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/187638/avec-eric-craftsmanship#x-0,vepisode,1,0

Is this common? They are also adding a heck of a lot of O2 throughout the process as well.

Interesting.
 
That's the typical method for red wine as you need skin contact so the skins have to be in the fermentation vessel.

My LHBS orders grapes every year and if you make red wine from grapes you have to do the post ferment pressing, which they will do for you as part of the price of the grapes.
 
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