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Picchetti Brothers Winery


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Photo by Vicki Rogers.

The historic Picchetti Winery brick building was constructed in 1896 by Italian immigrants Vincenzo and Secondo Picchetti. It is located in the 372-acre Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is on Monte Bello Road near the Stevens Creek Reservoir. It operated under the Picchetti Brothers label from 1996 until 1963. For a while it was operated as the Sunrise Winery, but today it is be called the Picchetti Winery and is producing very high-quality wine.

destemmer-condom


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Every day there was more plastic wrapped around something that was getting too wet for its own good. Thus, I give you the destemmer condom.

Yasmine explaining wine production_0693


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Wollombi Vineyard


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Cabernet Sauvignon

SLWSauvBlanc09


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Crushing the grapes


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We had enough grapes that we had to use the press twice in order to get the juice out of the grapes. It’s an interesting process to taste the wine at the different pressing levels. Oct. 2007

tank valve


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Chateau Garage – Monterey


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It’s pressing time at Chateau Garage

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time-machine-panel


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Much of European-style seems to be a consequence of there being a bunch of languages nearby. Imagine if German was the official language of Wisconsin, with Norwegian spoken in Minnesota and Polish in Iowa. The goods that came out of those states might have evolved into the sort of things we now find at Ikea, full of pictograms like those found on the Time Machine’s pedestal-like operation panel.

ready-to-start


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Nikelle is a go-getter. She volunteered for everything — she’d not last a week in boot camp. I think I’d like to be more outgoing like her, so I don’t miss out on fun things. I hang back. She jumped right in.

Of course, having a pair of mostly watertight Mexi-pants helps quite a bit. She just needed to have the bottom cuffs duct-taped up and she’d be nursery-ready, too.

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nikelle-in-tank


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Digging out a tank is damn hard work. If you’ve ever shovelled shit for a living, it’s very similar, except the smell is better. Honestly, by the time you get down to the bottom and the seeds are all concentrated, we’re talking about 40 and 50# (20-25Kg) shovel-loads. Nikelle swore she was, "a sweater," but anyone would be in very short order. At least she had a nice pair of water and wine-proof "Mexi-pants(tm)."

The ladies were hoping that with all the hard, physical work, we’d be dropping all sorts of weight. No such luck. Not only did we put on all sorts of crazy muscle (you should feel my thighs) in places we didn’t normally consider, but the meals were sort of designed for men. Given that most women count their calories and grams of fat, we were so hungry, it was impossible. All that and the constant supply of amazingly good cookies, and I, for one, actually gained weight.

We’d sit around kvetching about this during smoke breaks, but honestly, we’re probably stronger and healthier for the experience. The only real exception to this is Rich, who must have dropped about 40 pounds in the span of 3 months. That we never saw him sit down to eat is p’bly the take home lesson here.

l’apprendista – the apprentice


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Mamiya ZE-2 QUARTZ – Mamiya Sekor 50 mm 1:1.4 ef – Fuji Pro 160 s

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garden-boots-above


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Sometimes the side of the tank got so gunky, you just had to take a hose up and hose off the inside lip. We were reluctant to do this, but Cory insisted, "do you realize how much wine there is in a 15-ton tank? You’d have to hose all day to make a difference. Just be quick."

So we were, and there were indeed fewer fruit flies resting on the pipes.

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Making wine


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Wine making, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

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Vinification


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Best when viewed in LIGHTBOX.

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Merlot wine in the making!

red crates


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Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy.
Crates used for collecting the grapes from the vineyard.

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Wine Making – Swirls


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Long exposure effect whilst making red wine

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Papa Gino’s Mural 4


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Murals depicting the Italian wine industry line the wall of the Papa Gino’s restaurant in Webster, Massachusetts. They were made by The Art Studio in 1987.

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Red wine in the making… (Merlot)

These brand new stainless steel tanks provided for some cool reflections. Flash was bounced off the wall.

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Day 23: Winemaking in Cacabelos


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This is the second year in a row this generous soul invited me into his bodega to show me the traditional methods of local winemaking.

05-Learning about small scale winemaking


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Trio Vintners explains small-scale winemaking to OFP Task Force members.

Jalepenos at Scott’s


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Last weekend, I went up to Scott’s parents’ house to pick grapes for winemaking. They have a garden there, and are raising jalepenos…

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outside of the new De Young Museum


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(left to right)

One of a pair of concrete Sphinxes that replaced (in 1928) the originals by Arthur Putnam created for the 1894 Midwinter Fair.

Dale Chihuly’s Saffron Neon Tower (part of the Chihuly at the De Young installation which ended in October).

The curious bronze urn entitled Poème de la Vigne (1877-1878), by Gustave Doré (1832-1883), meant to meant to represent a celebration of winemaking.

La Villa e Tenuta I Bonsi


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The Bonsi estate lies on the hills overlooking Florence and the Arno valley. Built in 1400 as a turreted manor house defending the florentine family Bonsi della Ruota, it was transformed during the 17th century into a convent, the omnership passed to the Carmelite Friars of Florence. In the course of the 19th century came to the Budini Gattai family who decided to make it their country residence of neo gothic taste reflecting the projects of Raffaello Sorbi.

Today I Bonsi, where the proprietors still live, maintains intact the projects carried
out during the last century, although some of these remained unfinished; this can be seen not only in the Villa, the towers, the park, the tree lined pathway, the garden and the 17th century Church, but also by a system of terraces with a grand view of the valleys.

The estate can be visited by appointment and its dining halls and garden can be used to hold conventions, meetings and receptions.

For further information please visit www.agriturismoibonsi.it/index.html

Wine festival Cyprus


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Linking winemaking tradition and history with popular culture and modern winemakers

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Elderflower Winemakings


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So for gallon of the classic Elderflower I use -
About a pint of flowers (picked off as much stalk as possible)
1 Lemon
6pts Water
1Kg Sugar
1ltr White Grape Juice

Pour the water over the flowers. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Add grape juice and lemon (Squeezed or sliced, depending on how lazy I feel). At this point add a crushed campden tablet and leave it 24hrs. Add the yeast and nutrient and stir well. Stir daily for 4-7 days and then strain into a demijohn.

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Elderflower Winemakings


Image by Jacob Whittaker
So for gallon of the classic Elderflower I use -
About a pint of flowers (picked of as much stalk as possible)
1 Lemon
6pts Water
1Kg Sugar
1ltr White Grape Juice

Pour the water over the flowers. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Add grape juice and lemon (Squeezed or sliced, depending on hw lazy I feel). At this point add a crushed campden tablet and leave it 24hrs. Add the yeast and nutrient and stir well. Stir daily for 4-7 days and then strain into a demijohn.

www.jacobwhittaker.co.uk

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Winemaking (Community Voices) Lecture at the Rapid City Public Library


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Master Gardener and wine maker Jo Hillberry talks about small batch winemaking

Mad Winemaking skillzz


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4th Grand Aunt – Antique Winemaking Equiment, Domaine Chandon Green Point Wines 2


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4th Grand Aunt – Antique Winemaking Equiment, Domaine Chandon Green Point Wines, taken while Aunt Lay Leong was taking her photo.

4th Grand Aunt – Antique Winemaking Equiment, Domaine Chandon Green Point Wines


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4th Grand Aunt – Antique Winemaking Equiment, Domaine Chandon Green Point Wines

airlock


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This is an airlock, as used in winemaking. As the yeastie beasties in the wine-to-be transmute sugar into ethanol with their metabolic magic, they excrete carbon dioxide, increasing the air pressure inside the sealed chamber. The carbon dioxide pushes against the water in the airlock until it bubbles through. The water barrier prevents contamination from seeping in, and the green dye provides a handy-dandy method for ensuring that fermentation is actually proceeding.

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Wine festival of Cyprus


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Linking winemaking tradition and history with popular culture and modern taste makers of wine of cyprus

Grapes at Scott’s


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