Wine Tour

  

Earlier this week a friend of ours set up a wine tour independent of the ones that the military offers and we had a lot of fun. Zane didn't want to "go pick grapes" this morning but when we left this afternoon we asked him if he had fun and he said yes. We all did!

 

This is the outside of the winery. Notice what the building looks like.

 

 

This is the "house" where we got our instructions, made our wine, tasted and played games.

 

The row we chose to go down to get our grapes. 

 

Zane and his first bunch of grapes.

 

I am cutting my first bunch of grapes. 

 

Zane watching Jim cut his first bunch of grapes.

 

Zane cutting his second bunch of grapes.

Zane with all of his grapes.

 

 Me coming out of the vineyard with my grapes.

 

The container that will  hold our grapes. Right now it has gloves and sugar inside.

Zane trying to put on his plastic glove.

 

Zane putting his grapes into his container.

All of us crushing our grapes, well sort of, Zane is still putting his into his container.

 

Grapes waiting to be crushed.

Jim crushing his grapes while Zane watches.

Me crushing my grapes.

                                        Zane getting ready to try out the grape skin spitting contest.

 

Me getting ready to spit my grape skin. I came in 2nd!

 

Jim getting ready to spit his skin.

I hope that you all enjoy the pictures. Now we have to stir our wine twice a day for the next 7-10 days and make sure that the top was not on tight or we might have an explosion. Then we have to strain the wine and pour it into a wine bottle, filled almost to the top. Then it will have to sit again for 30 days, strain it again, pour it back into the bottle, put in the fridge then after 30 more days we can drink the wine. At least I think those are were the directions we were given. I do remember that being told that if we did leave enough room in the bottle for lots of oxygen to form that we would get vinegar. I think we are going to try that with one of the batches. I will keep you posted on how our wine turns out.

Love you all,

Liz