Chapter 303 - Fermenting Wine (2/2)

Bai Qingqing jumped down from Parker’s body, then ran to the river to take a shower with cheeks that were puffed up with anger. From how she saw it, the biggest advantage of staying in a castle was to be able to bathe in the river any time she liked. So long as there was someone guarding the door at the backyard, no one would enter.

Parker gleefully chased her to the river with the bag of grapes. From the way the footsteps sounded, Bai Qingqing knew it was him. Without even turning her head, she said, “Don’t come over! I don’t want to talk to you!”

“Okay. If you don’t wish to talk to me, just let me do the talking.”

“You…”

Too choked by anger to utter a complete sentence, Bai Qingqing turned around and splashed Parker with water. At the sight of the purple grapes by the shore though, her mood eased. “Go and carry a larger stone basin over.”

“Okay.”

Parker tossed his head, splattering water droplets all over Bai Qingqing’s face. She was about to retaliate when he dashed off like a streak of vapor.

“Hmph!” Bai Qingqing was so mad that she slapped the water surface a few times.

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Because they were plagued with the drought recently, these grapes were very sweet. If they could be fermented into grape wine, it would certainly be of superior quality.

Bai Qingqing washed the grapes with her body soaked in the river, merely shaking the grapes lightly in the water to wash away the dirt upon them, trying her best not to touch the white frost in the grape skin.

There was a large quantity of wild yeast on the white frost, which could make use of the glucose to ferment into wine. However, this method had a high level of difficulty and really tested one’s skills and the fermentation environment.

After washing the grapes, Bai Qingqing rubbed a piece of tree bark into a rope, using it to hang the grapes on a tree branch to drain off the water. After dinner, the grapes were fully drained of water, and only then could the grapes be used to ferment wine.

Since there were plenty of grapes, Bai Qingqing carefully chose from the bunch, only selecting those which were complete and fully ripe; even those with spotty skin were eliminated as those spots could be due to bacteria. If she was not careful, a bad apple could spoil the whole barrel.