Thursday, September 24, 2009

Wine-Making #4, Finale, Dateline Milna

First day of Autumn, the white grapes are ready for bottling. This
time we do things a little differently with the help of Spiro's
brother. Instead of transferring the new wine from the rubber vat by
hand, we hook up an old pump and plug it in. Magic!!!! A white wine
gusher. Sweet now, but it will dry out as it matures. Different, too,
is the fact that most of the wine will be stored in old glass wine jugs
rather than the stainless steel canister that we used for the red wine.

It's a beautiful and successful day, capped off with some succulent
meat, potatoes and carrots cooked under embers: peka. On the walk
home, I stop for my Dalmatian annual Equinox swim.

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