{"id":6262,"date":"2021-10-19T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2021-10-19T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T08:17:07","slug":"i-hated-grape-picking-what-a-load-of-cobblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/i-hated-grape-picking-what-a-load-of-cobblers\/","title":{"rendered":"I hated grape picking. What a load of\u2026 cobblers!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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For me, the grape picking season was a nightmare.<\/strong>
While my friends were all out having fun, chasing after girls and enjoying a few beers (they get drunk on two in those days!), I was picking grapes\u2026 what a load of crap!<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The first thing we had to do was throw out the previous year\u2019s wine, which was still in the barrels. Seriously?! How demoralising was that?\u2026<\/p>

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My parents didn\u2019t have their own vineyard, just bits of farm land, which were ugly and disorganised, and there were vines all over the place.<\/p>

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I think back then vines were used more to keep the top soil in place than to make wine!<\/strong><\/p>

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How on earth was I supposed to enjoy that, knowing they were robbing me of the best days of my youth? I didn\u2019t merely dislike it \u2013 I loathed it!<\/p>

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You get the idea \u2026 maybe you went through the same sort of thing.<\/p>

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It\u2019s now 2021!<\/strong><\/p>

Have you any idea how much I miss those old days \u2013 is it because I\u2019m older and wiser now, or is it because this season reminds me of my late father?\u00a0<\/p>

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I often go back to my parents\u2019 old land \u2013 I know it like the back of my hand. The spot we used to drink from the brook, the stone that nearly over-turned the tractor one time, or the spot where the wild strawberries used to grow.\u00a0<\/p>

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Maybe I\u2019m just getting old.\u00a0
All these old memories come flooding back when I\u2019m making\u00a0Tempura Tinto<\/a> wine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me, the grape picking season was a nightmare.While my friends were all out having fun, chasing after girls and enjoying a few beers (they get drunk on two in those days!), I was picking grapes\u2026 what a load of crap! The first thing we had to do was throw out the previous year\u2019s wine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tainadas-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/tempura-vinho-tinto-red-wine.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvamathias.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}