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| Some
members of the co-operative coming and delivering their grapes |
A
small van for a small 'cooperateur' |
The
co-operative uses what was previously a church as a winery. This
is some very old vats in the attic under the arched roof |
In a
corner, some old wine bottles of sweet wine |
A look
down into one of the concrete wine fermentation vats in the process of being
cleaned out |
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In the vineyards
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| You
can see the small entrance hole where the wine goes out and the cleaning
man goes in |
The
vineyards of Collioure are on steep hillsides and therefore you need to
terrace the ground |
To
build these walls, without mortar, just by piling the stone, is a very
specialised skill that only a few 'artisan' know how to do |
A vine
pruned in 'gobelet' |
A view
from the vineyards over the Collioure village |
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| There
is a very thin layer of topsoil before the rock starts |
In the
vineyards you find these "ditches", a bit less than a meter wide and a
bit more than 1m deep. They are there to drain of the water from the
torrential rains. But they are also a great danger to the vineyard
workers, should they accidentally fall into one |
The
vineyards and the village. The slopes are steep. You don't want to have
too inexperienced pickers (or too much wine for lunch) should they loose
their footing |
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A very
ripe bunch of grapes |
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Cellier de
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| One of
the small huts that you find in the vineyards |
A very
young vine pruned in 'taille gobelet' |
A bit
older |
Back
in the cuverie this is what is left over after destemming: the stems |
A look
inside the destemming machine (fouloir-egrappoir) |
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| A
refraktometer used to measure sugar contents (=potential alcohol) |
Computerised... |
A
closer look at the left-over stems |
Must
sprayed into a fermentation tank |
Another floor in the ex-church cuverie. This is on top of the currently
used concrete fermentation tanks |
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| A peek
down into one of the wine tanks: the marc |
When
someone is cleaning out a tank you have to make sure that he gets air
and is not suffocated by the released CO2, so this is a fan to push air
into the tank |
A
filter of not the latest model |
Some
old storage 'cuves' for the sweet wine on the top floor |
Some
old wine bottles gathering dust... |
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| ...set
aside for the INAO |
Some
old Banyuls wine on display in the shop |
Wine
stored outside in 'demijeannes' |
A
closer look |
Under
protection so as not to disappear (?) |
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The
Clos des Paulilles, makes several different wines that you can taste in
their restaurant between Port Vendres and Banyuls, just south of
Collioure... |
...and
in front of the sea |
A big
bunch for the next harvest of Banyuls |
Port
Vendres |
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| Port
Vendres |
Grapes
just harvested above the village of Collioure |
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M
Francis, the director of the co-operative displaying a bunch with both
red and white grapes |
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| A good
bunch and one that never developed properly |
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