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No you have no cap to punch down!

That refers to when you are making wine out of fruits and during the first
week of fermentation the CO2 gas escaping from the must forces all the fruit
to float to the top and creates a "cap" -- i.e. made out of all the fruit.
It is necessary to push this cap down back into the must and break it up
every day so that all the goodies are extracted by the fermentation process!

You are making wine out of just juices and there will be no "cap" to
worry about.

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> What do you mean by "punch the cap down daily"? Am I supposed to do
> something daily to it? I didn't think I was.
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