Wine is also objects that are the daily winemakers. Here are a few "still lifes" gleaned from the cellars of Burgundy:
biting midges are the small pots filled with oil, one does smoke to avoid freezing in Chablis. Stored in sheds in the vineyard, painting uneven the scene is quite pictorial (click to enlarge ):
Essential to monitor the success of the fermentation, the thermometer plunged into the tank:
The "Rocket" plunges into the pomace to help pump the wort:
My favorite item in the cellar: the Mustimeter, device used to measure the density of the wort.
By plunging into the wort, it indicates its relative density, so its sugar content at a given temperature ... The operation is repeated throughout fermentation to control its evolution:
pumps, omnipresent during the vinification, become confused on the ground:
The boards provide information on contrenu each tank. Simply chalked it evoke land, plots, landscapes:
Or simply hand:
ancestral version, stencil:
privileged moment of harvest, the snack, around 10am.
hygiene, primary:
Once finished, the wines are placed in a cage ... :
