{"id":98837,"date":"2023-09-16T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=98837"},"modified":"2023-09-30T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T21:49:07","slug":"saturday-night-picking-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2023\/09\/16\/saturday-night-picking-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Picking grapes – Rosh Hashanah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We decided that we wanted to visit a vu=ineyard or olive oil place today ut hadnt had much luck in finding a place. Magical Luigi managed to track down the owner of the Olive Oil museum in Bucchianico to ask her.., That place has such fantastic reviews (see here<\/a> ) . as fate had it.. she was off today (Saturday).. but she kindly invited us out to her house\/ air b&b \/ organic vineyard  in Navelli<\/a> about an hour away. <\/p>\n

We pile in the Luigi-mobile for the trip.. We arrived and were welcomed by this guy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our host today was Francesca.. She was a delightful ball of energy.. with two great kids and a great husband. They bought this place in Navelli and have made it it in to a wonderful B&B called Cantin Arte<\/a> as well as a n organic wine producer. We *definitely* recommend you find a way to visit whether for a stay or a tour like we did. <\/p>\n

Francesca introduced their operation then took us down to their eco viinyard for a few hours of grape harvesting. There were three other americans with us.. nice talkign to them as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also learned a little about saffron harvesting whihc was pretty cool.. Francesca has even Zsold bulbs to someone in Burlington VT. We learned it takes about 200,000 ‘threads’ to make a kilogram of saffron !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vineyard was beautiful.. and the grapes were deliviosu despite it being a hard year here due to weather. We each collected about a crate of grapes.. which was about 30-40 pounds I think. <\/p>\n

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It was fun work.. the sun was hot so we were happy when it was tiem to go up for a light lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Francesca put Luigi to work helping to cut tomatoes.. they  were an old heritage type.. a little funky looking.. but soooo delicious !<\/p>\n

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Francesca served us cut tomaties with olive oil on fresh made bread and soem of their whomeade organic wine. all delicious !<\/p>\n

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From there wqe went and took a look at the wine proudction process. THey we’rent expressing juice until later in the afternoon, but we got a good idea of the process. all the equipment was brand new.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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but the building had been an old winemaking place complete with a pressing floor  for barefoot squishing ala Lucy ! THe squished grape joice flowwed through a small hole in the floor into a big cistern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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