wine making

 Stephan Apelbaum is a good friend of ours who makes wine for Chateau Quercy

He invited us to pick from his private grapes in return for some bottles and a lesson
on wine making. Stephane is teaching his sons how to make wine.
He is teaching them the traditional way.

The kids will design the labels, wine will be ready in 2012

Michael hard at work

 Antoine (according to Tatiana my future son-in-law)  is a very fast picker

 delicious cabernet grapes

 even grandma picks

 merlot grapes

 The wine will be a mixture of cabernet and merlot

 hands of a wine maker, you see many people around town with
purple hands you know they are wine makers

 this was really tedious

 so many creatures came out while trying to de-stem

 father and son

in the barrel

Next day..... boys are crushing the grapes the old fashion way.

 a bit of brotherly fighting went on

measure the density, the grapes are already starting to ferment