Wine Time

This is just a short one to show a bit of the process of making wine. We've been pretty lucky that we have a decent harvest but now we have to use it.

We are very lucky that all the equipment is already there and just needs some cleaning.

Picking the grapes is not the hard part, removing the good ones from the vines is.








First we crush them in a mill type device and then it's time for pressing to drain as much juice as you can from the grapes.

The juice is so good that I was tempted not to bottle it at all but to enjoy the delights of freshly pressed grape juice.

We disinfected the demijohn with sulphur, which should not be breathed in. Unfortunately we got a bit of it and were coughing for afterwards.

The juice is then poured into the demijohn and now we wait, for a couple of days at least until it's time to relocate the juice to another demijohn and leave the sediment behind.

It's a fascinating process and there's still a lot to learn but I'm eager.