The grapes are 80% of the equation. You can only get great wine from great grapes. And then you can ruin them in a heartbeat with bad winemaking. The real problem of home winemaking is the quantity is so small that minute amounts of contamination can come into play and things can also go out of whack (TA, Ph) way too fast for them to be corrected. Then you have the barrel problem. A standard Burgundy barrel is 60 gallons. While there are smaller barrels, the surface area to amount of wine is out of whack. And with only one barrel, you can't work with the different ages of barrels required to blend. Don't even talk about oak additives...
So no, it would be monumentally difficult to make a great wine in small quantity at home.
I did the work and decided to make 200 cases this year...and that's at the very lower limit of what's practical. It will hopefully be a very, very nice, but very, very expensive bottle of Pinot Noir.
Harvest and
Crush pics - I'm a proud daddy!
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Crush Pad -- they seem to be having pretty good luck. Not Silver Oak (over-rated, BTW), but not bad either.