This year I got to see and help my host family with all of the wine making process. Last year I was at a training and missed harvesting of the grapes (see last year's post).
The first thing that is done, is to clean the barrels which the grapes will be placed while fermenting. We just used water and scrubbed the outside and the inside of the barrels. After the barrels were clean we boiled water with Walnut tree leaves and poured the water into the and covered the barrels, the mixture disinfected the barrels.
Then the fun part comes, picking the grapes. Three of us picked 70% of the grapes in one day. It was not difficult, but it took a little while and my back did hurt the next day.
When all of the buckets were full, we took a little break to crush the grapes. After that the grapes would sit in the barrels for an amount of time based on the temperature outside. If it is warm outside the grape juice ferments more quickly than if the weather is cool.
You can check out my last year's post to see the next steps in the wine making process: 2010 blog post.
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