This week we picked our grapes and started the wine making process. Stomping the grapes with our feet is an age old traditional method of maceration to release the juice from the grapes.
Last years wine making: https://youtu.be/tn-l1ojqFac
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Carissa, Iwan, Frankie & Albi
Carissa, Iwan & Frankie decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month they were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call their new home. We picked up Albi the cat along the way. Subscribe to follow our journey as we turn an old stone barn into our home, and learn the ropes of looking after a piece of land to make an abundant garden and one day, our very own winery.
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🌀💚🌀 Loved watching this! 😊
That was a bountiful harvest! I lived watching you both stomping the grapes. What a joy that must have Been! Hoping this year's wine is really good! Looking forward to 3 months time when you taste it😁🥂
I've been told the sweetest grapes are when the seed turns brown I think nick and Andrea said that
HELLO CARISSA & IWAN…GRAPE HARVEST TIME…ARE THE BLUE ONES 'CONCORD' – IF SO, MY FAVORITE…CARISSA, MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR IWAN TO BUILD A ROOT CELLAR ON THE PROPERTY….THE FURBABIES ARE HAPPY, EVERYTHING IS LOOKING FABULOUS…ALL THE BEST…🙏;)
Great arvest..
They look good… 👏🏻🍇🍇🍇👏🏻
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Make yourself a wooden tamper to push down the cap. It can become a family heirloom.
Another lovely peaceful, interesting video.
That was a great harvest. It will get good.
Off topic but…… you don’t tamp down the coffee in the moka. Just wondering why? I always tamp mine down as thought this was the correct way. I’m an espresso roast 100% arabica bean lover, no robusta for me. I know Iwan’s family have the tea (maybe coffee) business so figure you’ll give a decent explanation.
Do you know what the grape Varieties you are growing?
I love wines.The old people also stumped the grapes..I grew up between the Stellenbosch Winelands in Cape Town.. Love watching you guys.xx
Wow such hard work.. Thanks for inviting us to your farm to experience you "Living Your Dream" I look forward to someday seeing your bottles of fine wine on store shelves someday ❤
Hehee great fun x
Needless to say I loved the grape pressing but had to ask about the coffee. Sadly my wine days are behind me hence the increased coffee interest. Sunday mornings I watch several videos until I settle coffee in hand to watch yours, my favourite.
Hello~I've been looking for a grapes stomp video for a long time! It is wonderful😁 And Could you please consider uploading a more detailed grapes stomping video?
We don't have to do this anymore.
😂😂😂😂😂
Love the stomping with a glass of something in hand!
Why do you combine the purple grapes with the green grapes? Why not keep them separated ? Doesn't the purple grapes make what we (Americans) call a red wine and the green grapes make a white wine? 2 different taste. When do you prune the grape vines and how far back do you cut them?
Very nice job.😊
That's what we did when we were kids too. My grandma had a little vineyard and my grandpa used to make wine in the cellar. We, kids, helped by stomping on the grapes. It was fun!
I was hoping you were going to make white wine with the none blue grapes as it tastes very good. I make and it is delicious!! Next time keep them separate and will you will not wish you did it!!
The big bucket must be above the ground to ease poor the wine out.
In my region the grapes are well stomped when the seed grapes are in the surface.
Do not miss tast the wine when sweet, after the solid part is on top and you don´t see no liquid, is when the wine is sweet, it's delicious, the best part for me.
The sweet wine has tree parts, young, when tast like juice(not that good), sweet (good) and gasified (good), when the sweet starts to desapear. Sweet wine has many solid particles in it and they are faling down every day so poor carefully and eliminate the wine lees. You can preserve it sweet on the fridge.
If you want to drink grape juice wash and squeeze a couple of bunches of grapes and drink, don´t drink from the bucket, trust me.
A couple of days ago I found this channel and I’ve been binge watching all of the episodes. I try to make wines the natural way as well whenever possible well done guys keep up the good work
Hello, your videos are very good, which is in Spain or Portugal?
I’m confused. I thought this was last year’s video of your grape harvest and wine process.
What variety are the red grapes?
Good exercise to the grapes….
This feet smashing of grapes is equally disgusting as some Indian rural bakeries kneading bread dough with their feet as disgusting as chinese gutter oil… So why grape crushing by feet is accepted as ok by westerners but if it is asians it is disgusting or are europeans born with a sterile feet.
Yuck. Disgusting.
It's 2023 go to the store and buy wine
Hi, what is joepiga ? You mentioned you made it with the first harvest. Thanks !
Hello good day! This is from IJuander—a magazine show at GMA Network from the Philippines. We want to ask for permission to borrow this video to use in our current episode. I hope you will approve our request. Thank you!
Came for the feet stayed for the wine
That's nasty!
Pour drink wine
Hygiene comes from colour ??