The grape harvest is over and the vinification is in full swing. Squishing grapes into the presses and tasting the Paradis is the order of these cool early autumn days. Enjoying grapes; pears; walnuts and heaven-scent tomatoes from the garden.
lundi 21 septembre 2009
vendredi 11 septembre 2009
At the market
It's impossible not to get excited about salad here. Our favourite stall-holder grows his own produce and it changes with the seasons. Today (21st July) he gave me the sweetest yellow tomatoes I can remember ever tasting. You can see more paintings at http://www.robert-innes.com/
A Vine Life
The Vendange is in full swing and I am frantically painting and drawing this back-breaking work. I'm learning a little about this bibulous life : 1 kg of grapes makes a bottle of wine; each vendangeur picks about 750 kg of grapes a day between shin and thigh height. The red bins of grapes hoisted manually on to trailors and back of them weigh about 90 kg. The village is now smelling sweetly of fermenting grapes, a great year I'm told.
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