Wine news

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last mulberries pressed today, giving another 40 litres

we used olive nets to catch the mulberries and yesterday, when the nets were washed and dried, I took  them back up to the corral  (old stables) where they are stored - along with a lot of other occasionally used things of ours - and saw the first black figs were ripe and dropping.  So a change of plan for the afternoon,  I picked 16 lbs  (7 figs to a pound) and they are on their  way to being wined (?)

It may seem that we are trying to make a lot, last year we made 100 litres or so, but over a year when there is also Christmas, New Year, fiestas, friends visiting, us going to friends with a bottle or two,  you can see that you need far more than that.   It's reckoned locally that you need 1.5 times the number of days ie 500 litres which sounds in the alcoholic range, but remember, it's not all drunk by  us!  And also when you visit someone, the choice of drink is wine, wine or wine, which means you aren't expected to have beer or G&T when they come here.   We have Spanish friends who brew in 100 litre vats, in their bodegas, so what we produce in buckets in the kitchen is tiny by comparison.   And the mulberry  wine works out at 15c per litre.  You can't do better than that.