[Sca-cooks] grape stomping

[Stefan li Rous]

Duriel commented:

 >>>
I can't think of *anything* I enjoy eating that I would like to step
on, ripe or not.

If that was my filtering criteria, I'd be limited to a diet of soft
leafy herbs.
<<<

So, I guess no grape stomping for you?

I know today that machinery is probably used almost everywhere to get  
the juice from grapes for making wine. Was the juice actually  
extracted from the grapes, in period or "traditionally" actually done  
by filling vats with the grapes and then by people climbing into the  
vats and stomping on the grapes?

Stefan
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