Wine harvest festival

We went to 2 vineyard (Pialligo and Mt. Majura) near Canberra (about 15min from Canberra).

There was an event at Pialligo Vineyard at 10am - Grapes picking and Grapes stomping.

We went early to take a tour at the vineyard.

The grapes in the photos are cabernet sauvignon. It tasted very sweet.

Video of JiaHuey eating fresh grapes on the spot... hahahaha... It was sweet and juicy.

Photos of Carbonet Sauvignon - grapes for making red wine

Workers were busy picking grapes box by box while we were busy taking photos...

View of Pialligo Vineyard

The Event started!!!!!!
Each of us took a bucket, our aim is to fill up the 2 buckets - Handpick riped grapes. :)
See Videos below:

There were some unriped grapes as well which looked very beatiful..


Two full bucket of fresh grapes that we picked.. :) It was a great harvest. We managed to fill our buckets by picking grapes from 2 or 3 trees.

We carried the 2 buckets along the path back for the stomping event.


We poured the 2 bucket of grapes in to a big container for stomping.

Both of us took off our shoes,
rinsed our leg (they provided a bucket of water),
step into the container
and
started to stomp the grapes...





It is really a cool experience, stepping on the freshly picked grapes. Short video of grapes stomping:

After we got out of the container. Unexpectedly, the vineyard owner asked us to drink the fresh grapes juice (the 1 we stompped) ... I thought she was kidding.. but she took out cups for us...

OOOoooooo NOooooooooooo....... It was really like the TV program "fear factor"

End up,... We DRANK IT!!!!!! See the Video of 2 of us drinking it.. hahaha... :)

It was DISGUSTING!!!.... But infact.. it tasted good. No machine-squeezed fruit juice can beat it. KC drank twice.... hahahaha... But he feel stomache after that..
hm... i think it is psycological effect, because i am fine.... hehe...


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We went to next wineyard after the event finished - Mt Majura wineyard.

We bought a lunch hamper and had our lunch there.


After lunch, We went for a wineyard GUMBOOT Tour.

We had to wear the gumboot provided by the wineyard to prevent bugs that might destroy the plant.

KC is the 1 who chose the pink color boot. Not me!!! hahaha.....


All the grapes trees were covered by net to prevent Birds from eating.

But we saw some birds were trapped in the net.. haha...


We saw different type of grapes... Pinot Noir, Riesling, cabernet sauvignon and so on...



We saw alot of spiders 'hanging on air' at the middle of the path between 2 rows of grapes plant.. We nearly crashed them.

It was really fun to join the harvest festival at the wineyard in Canberra. :) And suprisingly, it only took us 15min to get to the destination. We should go there more often.. hehehe... :)