The advantage of being a grower producer is ultimate control and decision-making over all viticultural and winemaking operations .The luxury is to harvest only when the grapes have achieved ultimate ripeness, limit the travel time from vineyard to cave, and load the whole clusters into the press immediately, avoiding the deleterious effects of uncontrolled, premature fermentation as a result of damaged fruit. Whole cluster pressing is followed by fermentation in stainless steel, and oak barrel aging to give complexity and structure to the finished wine.