Autumn wine colours

We thought we'd have a tidy up of the wine shelf this afternoon - although a lot of the wine was in 25 litre barrels which obviously were on the floor as they are far too heavy to lift onto the shelf.

3 hours later......we've siphoned, sterilised, re-bottled,  tasted and tasted again just to be sure everything was good and have now got all the various wines into slightly more manageable bottles.  Some are still in 25 litre barrels,  some in 10's,  some in 5's,  and a few in ex lemonade 1.5 litres.

It's  a good job that we don't throw these empties away because as we siphoned the wines off their settled yeasty base,  we stopped and said well, if that goes into that one, then we can clean that and put that one into 2 fives,  this one can then go into that one when its been cleaned out......and then we had to try and keep track of which wine was where, we made several different batches of white over a month, then rosado, then "the last of the summer wine" which is slightly pink but fruity.

Confused?  So were we!  But it's done,  its all been labelled,  there's a bottle or two of white and rosado ready for drinking and a glass in front of me as I write this.

And as you walk into the kitchen,  facing you is this very colourful shelf.

Pear,  strawberry,  black fig,  white grape,  rosado,  with white fig and 'the last of the summer' mixed grapes behind and the 10's and 25's - mostly white and rosado - lined up in front of the shelves on the floor.  All in all,  about 240 litres or so.  We'll try not to drink it too fast!