I ordered bottles through amazon because all the people I tried to buy from in the vicinity were out of stock. Alex had the manufacturer throw in the bottle washer and dryer with the shipment from Italy when they got stuck due to the strikes there. So Alex spent the morning washing bottles and they are now drying.
We plan to bottle the cider and the red wine first.
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| Pressure and foot operated |
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| The white bottles look smaller than the red? |
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| Packaging is hard to unwrap |
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| More bottles |
Storm Ciarán is on the way, the third cyclonic low-pressure system already this year. The jet stream has apparently done a wobbly again and we are in for a procession of lows. We can expect hurricane-force winds and torrential rains with this one, worst in the south and east. And they have already experienced severe flooding.
We were in Galway for the Macnas parade and the full moon caused flooding on the high tide even with the flood-defence barriers in place. We had a lovely time in a house right on the river. The Corrib has a mighty current and it is mesmerizing to the point of being frightening. I much prefer the gentle rhythm of the sea. The parade, by the way, was phenomenal. Today is All Hallows Eve but it won;t be a pleasant Halloween Trick or Treat for the kiddies across most of the country. The rains should be moving in by this evening.
What effect all this rain will have on the vineyard I can't predict, but it all is very strange. The orchard trees are blooming again and the leaves have not yet dropped from the trees and vines. But Alex lost all but one of his hives. There had been too much rain since July for them to forage and he didn't know to feed them.
Some highlights from the Macnas Parade in Galway on Sunday evening, the day the clocks turned back...
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