Yay wine making! It took all day and my back really hurt afterwards, but the weather was beautiful and i thing everyone had a good time here are some pictures of my weekend.
first is Maude working away, what happens is you get a pair of clippers and a bucket, you put the bunches of grapes in the bucket, and then someone comes by with a big plastic barrel on their back and you dump your bucket into that and they dump that into the trailer behind the tractor.
this is my favorite picture of the weekend. it's Grandpa (or Papi) Roger and this lady I forget her name but she and Roger have been friends since childhood having always lived in the same town. she was wearing the baseball cap and glasses (which is very american according to them) and decided her and Roger should change hats. Roger is my favorite carater from the farm, he is this little old man you you will find a the oddest moments working away at something or other. He and his wife have separte gardens because they dont agree on what to grow. He doesn't talk very much but when he does he is very hard for me to understand because its a kind of mix of the local dialect, french and not pernounced very clearly. that said, i dont think he understands me at all, but we always get along anyway.
This last picture is from their wine cave, where they go to press the grapes (in a machine not with feet like my dad thinks) then the juice goes in barrels to ferment and then they bottle them. the cave is actually kinda creepy it's not very well lit, damp and there are all these little cubbyholes filled with wine bottles and weird hallways and on top of all that like these bottles everything is covered in this mold. there are probally several thousand bottles of wine in the cave I dont know how old some of them are but Claude open some bottles from 1976 when I was there (yeah 10 YEARS before i was born)
so overall a great weekend, between the wine making/drinking, watching rugby (France won) eating both rabbit AND cow's tongue i was feeling pretty french.
untill the next adventure...
JY
2 comments:
great pictures! i especially love that one of your papi and his friend. they just look so frenchy :)
question: does wine still taste okay when there's mold growing all over the bottle?
Yeah the wine is still good and actually when you have it with your meal or wahtever your not supposed to clean off the bottle (the top/cork you do though of course) because it is part of the presentation on the table. Proof that it is real wine ;)
JY
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