What's on Jean's Kitchen SInk this week?
The wines, the foods,
the people and places in NW wine country.
Crushing
Grapes with your Feet
means lots of seeds between the toes
10-8-03 I spent Saturday with Laura LoPresti of Washington Wine Tours and fifty enthusiastic wine lovers who ventured into the vineyards to join the harvest. Laura organized an idyllic trip to the Yakima Valley complete with grape picking, wine tasting, picnicking, grape crushing, lazing about in the sunshine, and general merriment. Here's a glimpse of what you missed! |
Picking grapes and eating grapes
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Picking grapes means hauling grapes!
Relaxing after picking grapes
Lunch after picking grapes
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Time to Stomp!
Here's those
seedy toes, just out of the fermenter-
the garden hose received a vigorous
workout!
Laura emptying grapes into the destemmer
Dumping more grapes into the destemmer
This couple really liked stomping
grapes!
Intrepid tour guide Laura LoPresti
stomps and sips
Ugh- slimey grape juice feet!
Source of the grapes, the Yakima Valley
near Zillah
