STOMPING GRAPES with our FEET to make WINE.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- 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.
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Years ago, when I lived in Germany, I picked white grapes in the fall harvest. In 1976 we had unseasonable and consistently hot weather every day - with temps in the high 90's many days. That was the best wine year ever. It was a grueling summer in Germany whose average temps are in the 70's. But we talked about 1976 wine for years. I hope this is true for you. I got so much satisfaction watching you pick. Brings back happy memories.
Fingers crossed!
The summer of '76 is renowned in the UK for being extraordinarily hot, with a long drought. Old people (like me) can drone on about it for hours, and talk about the very many forest fires etc. This is the first time that I've heard it affected more of Europe - and produced a great wine! 🙂
Fingers crossed
Perhaps global warming will produce better wines than ever!
Perhaps global warming will produce better wines than ever!
Such a great reward for your hard work and care.
It really is, and loads of fun!
Wow............ haven't seen this since I was in my teenage years......... the foot stomping etc!!
Stomping the grapes with a glass of wine in hand. That’s the way to do it.😁
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.
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
What a relaxing video! (and very informative too)
Love the stomping with a glass of something in hand!
It’s one of the rules of foot stomping! I think the French came up with it 😅
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!
Same here. My Portuguese grandpa made wine in the cellar in the US.
Hi, didn't know there was going to be a live chat this morning.
The poor chickies were marching back & forth in their coop watching you take all the grapes they'd have been delighted to help you with!
Good haul of grapes, lots of lovely vino to come.
Thank you for the video, peaceful & relaxing as always with your furred & feathered family observing & supervising you from all angles.
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Good harvest, hope the wine comes out excellent! Have a great week!
Thanks Ana!
What a great picture of you two stomping the grapes with your feet. The land looks like it is not burning up anymore. Beautiful fall coming. Marigolds and Zinnias are so beautiful. 👏👏👏👏💕
Beautiful color the wine. Amazing!
Thanks for sharing, great to see all of the harvesting and hope you get some good wine, always look forward to your vlogs and everything is looking great
Was really beautiful to watch. Thank you. 🍇 xxx
Wow time flys - I remember watching last year’s grape harvest ☺️
That was pigging fascinating! I am really impressed with the size of your grape harvest, a little surprised that you mixed red and green grape varieties, amazed at how "solid" they initially appeared as Carissa first started treading them - she wasn't sinking calf deep immediately! - then pleased to see you washed your feet, Iwan, before you took over; well, you were wearing trainers and socks 😀.
Your knowledge is very impressive, thanks for sharing it with us - pushing down the grapes, stalks etc, wetting the edge of the tub - all good tips for us one or two demi-john producers from our grapes in the garden! (waiting for my first bunch to develop, I only planted it last year ... )
Also amazed that the wild grape produced zilch
Ah..can smell that good wine from here,. Bravissimi!!
Very nice job.😊
Thank you! This was very educational for me. I have never experienced this before! I am excited to follow your process!
Thanks for watching Barbara! Glad you got something from it!
Wow! That looks like a great harvest!❤️❤️
Love the grape stomping drinking your own wine- dance, another great vlog guys❤️❤️
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😁🥂
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 ❤
Ahhh vindima!😊🍇🍷
Another lovely peaceful, interesting video.
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...🙏;)
Plenty of vineyards round here costa blanca have vines low to the ground, fingers crossed for this years wine
Good luck with this year's batch. I hope the temperatures are cooling a bit.
It’s much cooler already. Such a relief!
Wow how amazing would it be to make your own vino , a huge alternate wine kicked off in oz , no preservative natural some very cloudy whites , mainstream vignoers have had a Panadol and a lay down can’t wait to see your efforts to fruition 👍❤️❤️❤️🙏&shame it’s not botrytis mould
That’s the style we’re going for, it’s almost the ancient method. We did make some last year but Iwan wasn’t happy with 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
Thanks Alex! Natural is the way!
That was a great harvest. It will get good.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love you guys, interesting to see the wine 🍷 process.
Ah, I remember the "pressing dance". Next year get a small grape press, so much easier.
We have a small press but that is for later in the process, a bigger one would be brilliant!
What a lovely relaxing video
Thanks Martin!
That brought back the memories of I Love Lucy stomping of the grapes. I only wish it could have been a longer video. Love everything you both do. Thanks for sharing this beautiful video 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
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Good exercise to the grapes....
I have only a little bit vine in my garden, but this year I had much more grapes than last year. Much smaller, but very rich on flavour. We ate them up, not enough for making vine, but this it at least one positive aspect of global warming...
This is true! 😅
Nice
I wonder if you could put mycelium dowels into some of those big branches to crop mushrooms in the future? The grapes look luscious
Hehee great fun x
Very interesting vid on your wine harvest how many bottles do you hope to yield from it. Keep the great vids coming... told you it was going to cool down lol...
I think we’re on about 100 litres but won’t know for sure until we press it. I’ll keep you posted! We’re loving the cooler weather!
Well, so it turned out well. I told you so.
Wonderful video as always,off the topic did you buy the land behind you?I might have missed the outcome hoping so
Not yet, we have their details now so are in the process of organising that with the lawyer.
Can't wait.
🌀💚🌀 Loved watching this! 😊
You can make ‘Grappa’ with the left over of the squashed grapes. …. Just an idea.
I do love grappa. One day, when I have a winery, I will buy a still. They call it Aguardente in Portugal.
@@FrankieOffGrid On that score - I am impressed with the stainless steel containers you do have! Surely you are already considering selling your wine in the local farmers markets? That is quite an investment
I just need more vines Neil. We’re going to plant a load this winter/spring I hope. I would like to buy/rent a vineyard in the area one day.
@@FrankieOffGrid Exciting times! I hope it works out for you
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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?
Hi there, there’s really not much else to it, you just stomp your feet until you can touch the bottom of the bucket.
@@FrankieOffGrid Okay~All right. Maybe next time next year LOL
I mean, the stomping process is fascinating to me and it makes me relaxed😁
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Hi, what is joepiga ? You mentioned you made it with the first harvest. Thanks !
I've been told the sweetest grapes are when the seed turns brown I think nick and Andrea said that
We don't have to do this anymore.
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You mean stomp the grapes? A crusher costs €200 minimum, barely worth it for 300kg of grapes.
@@FrankieOffGrid 😂😂😂😂😂
That îs not that much, and you can use it more times.
If you want to buy one I’m not stopping you 😅 to me it’s a waste of money. Feet and legs work perfectly fine 😉
@@FrankieOffGrid Right ...
Can I do it also??
Looks fun.
Of course! Give it a go, you just need plastic buckets really.
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I meant coming there and help you do it ))
Ahh it’s all finished now. Next year maybe!
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Do you have any vines on your land?
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?
Hi Angela, the plan this year was to make two separate wines, but the white grapes didn’t cope too well with the drought.. blending grapes like this is fairly common, what is more common is making white wine out of red/purple grapes, next time you eat one take a look at what colour the flesh is, champagne for example is made with three different grapes, two of which are red.
As for pruning, it’s best done in the winter - so January/February. I try to prune back to three buds on three canes for each vine.
Thank you for replying back to my questions. @@FrankieOffGrid
You both inspire me! Does Freddie get a hair cut?
No Frankie does not get a haircut, it's cooler that way 😎
@@nickytanton107 , OK thanks. I don't understand, but I will take your word for it! 🙂
@@biddiemutter3481 insulation. Lots of info on the internet, even with heatmaps which show the parts which heat up more, shaven or unshaven, you'll be surprised
@@CLFL14256 thanks
We do trim her hair sometimes, mostly because she gets so many seeds in it. But I was surprised to find out too that they’re better in the heat with their natural coat.
Do you do any pruning of the vines, and then training of them ?
We prune in the winter, there was a lot of work to do to get them in shape. As for training the way they’ve been grown doesn’t really need it too much, we will be fencing the border and those grapes will be trained.
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.
Hi there! Great question, I always used to tamp it down until an Italian man told me off for doing it in the shop - his reasoning was that if you tamp it then it creates a barrier for the water, and therefore creates an uneven brew - the water escapes forcefully leaving a channel through the coffee. I guess it’s the opposite of an espresso machine where the water contacts the tamped coffee first. Have an experiment and see what works best for you.
Hi, there are different points of view - like anything with coffee, tea, wine! If your coffee is the right grind for the moka, there shouldn't be any need to tamp, just tap the basket hard on a worktop to get rid of any air channels which will cause the water to rush through without brewing the coffee. If my coffee is ground too coarse, then I tend to tamp a little after the tap, then brew at a lower heat, so the water has more time in contact with the coffee. Quite often the coffee you buy pre-ground is too coarse, unless you buy the espresso ground coffee, which would be perfect. Hope this helps! It's however you like your coffee at the end of the day
Thanks for this additional info. I do have a grinder and grind quite fine, probably espresso grind. I will give it a knock in the counter first. I do like my coffee strong and rich. The grinder was a game changer for me. Thank you.
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!!
There wasn’t enough white grapes this year, it was the original plan. We made 70litres of white wine last year which came out alright - the grapes aren’t ideal for a single variety white, there isn’t much flavour to them, better for blending. The wine smells good so far 🤞
What variety are the red grapes?
Came for the feet stayed for the wine
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Hello, your videos are very good, which is in Spain or Portugal?
thanks Francisco we are in the Castelo Branco area of Portugal 🇵🇹
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Why are the vines all on the ground?
They’ve not been trained to grow on wires - it seems to be the local style. We do plan on putting in posts and wires over the winter.
@@FrankieOffGrid That should make the harvest be far less back breaking/squatting intense.
@@FrankieOffGrid you need think better..some especies vines have better quality if grow near the ground. Search for Douro vines...and you see that all vines are near the ground.
You’re right! I think I will build a fence along the border so those grapes can have a choice, the rest are quite happy, I think it even helps with the yeasts - as long as there is good air flow. The vines on the islands are amazing!
I’m confused. I thought this was last year’s video of your grape harvest and wine process.
No this was this years harvest
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Do you know what the grape Varieties you are growing?
We’re not 100% but I’m fairly sure they’re two indigenous varieties- Bastardo Branco and Tinto.
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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!
It's 2023 go to the store and buy wine
Someone’s got to put it there 😉😅
Surprised you don't eat any
We have eaten quite a few! They’re very seedy though
Pour drink wine
That’s usually the way to do it
Hygiene comes from colour ??
Sorry.. what?
Toe wine smells sick buy a press please before someone gets sick. 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
😆 it’s a thousand year old tradition, if you’re a wine drinker then no doubt you will have drunk foot stomped wine. As long as you wash your feet I don’t see it as any different from making something with your bare hands.
I use to help my grandfather stomp grapes in Portugal when I was young...but just the red grapes..in Caldas da Rainha.
Now I live in Niagara falls Canada.
I'm visiting Portugal in 2 weeks😊😊 . for a month.
I admire your lifestyle and struggles...
That’s just silly
There's always 1 uneducated ignorant comment..... the beauty of a keyboard warrior 🤫🤫
It's how wine is made🙂 perfectly normal!
That's nasty!
What is nasty? 😅
they're feets on stomp
I don’t know what you mean sorry? 😅 you mean stomping the grapes? You’d be surprised how much wine you’ve drunk that is crushed this way 😂