Winemaking

"Wine is bottled poetry."

I can't drink wine...but i can make it! Monday night we visited Hana' and Irini and their baby Daniel. They were so excited to share their wine recipe with us and show us how it was done, so after a meal of crepes and salad (a very unusual meal by Egyptian standards of rice and molokhya) we started to make the wine. Basically we ground grapes to get the juice out of them and then added yeast and sugar! It was very simple but the next step is to cook and stir the concoction until it ferments, which takes over a week to do. Even though the meal was unusually western, Hana and Irini's Egyptian instinct to stuff their guests came out and we went home very full and with our hands sticky with grape juice.