Sebastopol, CA - August 25, 2020 - American Winesecrets, LLC. (Winesecrets), North America’s wine taint mitigation expert has partnered with Napa Wine Co. , Napa’s leader in high quality, reserve lot custom crush to provide an artisan-scale Flash Détente system at the Oakville crush facility. Flash Détente removes pigments from grape skins instantaneously prior to fermentation and has proven beneficial in reducing the impact of smoke exposure once the wines have completed fermentation. The smoke-taint causing volatile phenol compounds accumulate in grape skins during wildfire incidents. Flash Détente streamlines red maceration by rapidly heating must and then cooling it instantaneously in a vacuum chamber. The treatment results in the rupturing of cell walls initiating an efficient breakdown of the structure of the berry. The smoke aromatics are carried off with water vapor in the vacuum. “Flash Détente has a key advantage over