The beauty of the foot relative to wine production is that it spreads out body weight so the pressrure exherted on the fruit is not that large. There will likely be little stem character added to your wine by foot stomping as long as the stems (or most of them) are removed afterward.
Have fun stomp'n and CHEERS to ALL!!
Aaron
This year, I'm planning a grape crushing party, i.e., the "I Love Lucy" method.
> I plan on having the grapes crushed by foot, and then I'll run the must through
> my crusher/destemmer, and hopefully extract most of the stems.
>
> Is this a reasonable approach? I've heard that crushing on the stems will
> result in increased bitterness, especially if the stems are green. Which
> grapes might be best for this approach? Or should I just bag the whole idea
> and have my friends just take a turn at the destemmer?
>
> Thaks for your suggestions.
>
> Lee