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Showing posts with label grape harvest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grape harvest. Show all posts

October 28, 2014

Gathering the grapes


Sun up

The dew in the fields and woods evaporates and there's a misty haze, but it'll be a warm day and just right for
gathering the grapes






These days the grapes are put through an electric masher.
The juice goes into barrels to ferment before being transferred into glass jars
A row of stored jars that will be sterilised ready for use later on.
My husband's older cousin who lives in the old village likes to use the old method
of pressing the grapes.
The group finishes off gathering the grapes on my sister-in-law's land and I go and help her prepare a meal.