Vinho de Talha - How Wines Are Made the Ancient Way in Portugal's Alentejo

The runoff from the destemming operation provides broken skins and juice, which looks like a rather muddy sludge, as you can see. This is what goes in the big pots. It's the only thing that goes into the pots. Despite the fairy tale circulating that wine could not be produced in biblical times because making it is a complex process requiring the addition of microscopic yeast cells--thus saving teetotaling Christians the dangerous idea that Jesus might have consumed an alcoholic beverage during his life rather than the patented and difficult to produce "grape juice." All you've ever needed to make wine is punctured, ripe grapes, a stick and a storage vessel.