Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Dunno if I'd be whinging about the WET if you drink wine, there's more to it than that.

4l cask of fruity lexia @ 12+ % went up from say $12 to $16? Dunno.

DL

Fruity Lexia? A Girl's drink.


Wait until you have tried a next door Italian Neighbour's Red. That is real ballsy plonk.


Was asked to hand crush a heap years back & the "Crusher" was an old Mangle with the rollers wrapped in a few layers of Bird wire did the job ok, as well as the Spiders, & Slaters & Gecko or two a whole pile of Garden insects that were unfortunately going into that Year's Vin Collapso to make it a world class, Gold Medal Winner plonk that had been "harvested" with the Grapes.



3 years later it still tasted like the above Menagerie but worse.

Ah, not so happy days.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Fruity Lexia? A Girl's drink.


Wait until you have tried a next door Italian Neighbour's Red. That is real ballsy plonk.


Was asked to hand crush a heap years back & the "Crusher" was an old Mangle with the rollers wrapped in a few layers of Bird wire did the job ok, as well as the Spiders, & Slaters & Gecko or two a whole pile of Garden insects that were unfortunately going into that Year's Vin Collapso to make it a world class, Gold Medal Winner plonk that had been "harvested" with the Grapes.



3 years later it still tasted like the above Menagerie but worse.

Ah, not so happy days.

A red with a hint of Tinea- What a bouquet

when grapes are crushed for wine , everything gets crushed.

anything thats not wet/watery is filtered out through a big drum roller covered in some sort of earthen powder, maybe diatomatious earth (is that how it's spelt)

interesting process if you get a chance to see it.

this is done with tipper trucks and front end loaders which the day before could have been carrying anything

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

when grapes are crushed for wine , everything gets crushed.

anything thats not wet/watery is filtered out through a big drum roller covered in some sort of earthen powder, maybe diatomatious earth (is that how it's spelt)

interesting process if you get a chance to see it.

this is done with tipper trucks and front end loaders which the day before could have been carrying anything

Filters you said. I 'm sure those lads hadn't thought of, used or thought of using Filters.

Their families had been doing it that way for centuries.


Nothing squeaky clean or very Hygienic about that operation.


Maybe they were responsible for the initial bout of C-19 & not the Chinese, back in year dot?

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

A red with a hint of Tinea- What a bouquet

I dread to think of any one of those crushers going arse over tit in that vat & never to be seen again, but it was a spectacularly nice drop that year according to the Wine Writers..


Not one Life Preserver to be seen so they'd sink & not swim.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

when grapes are crushed for wine , everything gets crushed.

anything thats not wet/watery is filtered out through a big drum roller covered in some sort of earthen powder, maybe diatomatious earth (is that how it's spelt)

interesting process if you get a chance to see it.

this is done with tipper trucks and front end loaders which the day before could have been carrying anything

Diatomaceous.

In that initial process the drum roller has a de=stalker inside that spits stalks and leaves out the top. Some wine is made with stalks on.

No serious family owned winery would allow uncleaned transport of grapes. They generally own their own, kept super clean.

DL

Originally Posted by 4bee

I dread to think of any one of those crushers going arse over tit in that vat & never to be seen again, but it was a spectacularly nice drop that year according to the Wine Writers..


Not one Life Preserver to be seen so they'd sink & not swim.

Decent rack line up all the way across too.

DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Decent rack line up all the way across too.

DL

The bloke on the far right is too far forward. That is cheating.