Thursday, June 3, 2010

Italian wine


The sign on the vineyard door said it all.
While staying at the villa, the owners told us we could drink as much of the white and red wine as we wanted from the wine cellar.
One of the fun activities the owners invited us to do was to bottle the wine for the villa.
You start by cleaning out the 75 liter glass jugs and driving to the neighborhood vineyard.
The vineyard sells bulk wine, cases of bottled wine, and olive oil.
With our 75 liters of white and 75 liters of red, we also got a bag full of corks.
The caretaker of the villa showed us how to drain the wine into each bottle.
The final step is to put the bottle into the "corking" machine, have a kid drop in a cork, and to pull down hard on the handle.
Finally - replace the wine in the wine cellar for future consumption!
Even with spilling and our helpful child labor, we were able to produce around 90 bottles of white and 90 "rosso."

Everyone got into the action. I would claim it was hard work but you can see Daph has her sunglasses on her head and flip-flops on her feet.

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