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Good morning everyone. Welcome back to the channel. Now it's 10 a.m. and I am in Lausanne, in Switzerland. For the past two weeks I am visiting Flo and I am talking to you from the window of the apartment. Look, this is the city of Lausanne. It's quite big and that's the Geneva lake on the other side. That's France already and today we've got a very beautiful weather. So recent months in September, in October, it's a famous Vendange season. Vendange is a French word and here it's a French-speaking region and it means grape harvest. It's a very crucial step in winemaking. Switzerland isn't particularly famous for its wine but it does produce the very high quality wine. And in between Lausanne and Montruy is Lavaux wine terraces and it's a stunning place and also the most historical wine region in Switzerland. Yen wants to make a video about Swiss wine production in the Lavaux region and therefore we contacted some wine producers. One is called Maxime and he's the owner of Dizeron Wines, which is a famous wine label in the region. And today we're gonna go there, visit him and see what it is like to Lavaux where you can taste wine, where you can even try making wine. So today is the event. This is, what's the place called? Domaine de la Crozat. The event takes place at nine so now everyone is having a coffee and a croissant and I want to show you where the place is located. This is the wine yard. It's facing the Geneva lake. So on the other side that is France and the famous bottled water from France. It's also very expensive. And this morning we have a lot to do and we are also going to pick the grapes by ourselves. So first, welcome here to Domaine de la Crozat. The estate here has been built in 1515. It's in our family for the past 20 years. As I mentioned earlier, we just harvested like 10 days ago some grapes because we have some Pinot Noir around and it's a first maturity. So it has to be taken first before Chasselas. Today we're gonna focus on Chasselas. Chasselas is the king grape here in Lavaux. It represents 80% of the white grapes. So we all get this bag from Swiss Wine and there are some very important items for the day. There's one hat for the sun because it's quite sunny and it's getting quite hot. I'm still wearing my jacket but I think I'm gonna put it off soon. And then there are scissors to cut the grapes because this is what we are going to do now. They look quite professional though. Let's see. Oh yeah, they look quite sharp. Now everyone got the scissors. We are following him to the vineyard. I don't understand a word but I guess he's telling us which plot belongs to the family and he's taking us to the vineyard. I guess those are our yellow boxes. Everyone has to take some boxes. Then we're gonna put it next to the next to the vines and then we just cut it off and then we have to carry it up the hill. And then let's get started. Starting from today I think Flo will become the master of winemaking. Let's start with picking grapes. Yeah, this is already the first struggle. So you have to remove all the dead grapes already from here and he showed me a technique which is more or less like this but it doesn't look as professional when I do it. Basically just to shake off the dead grapes and the dead branches. Okay. Is there a production limit of the grapes? For example, certain amount of kilos is allowed in this hectare? Okay. What is your name? Cyrille. That is kind of a physical protection that is used in fruits in general. Compared with normal grapes, the wine grapes usually have a higher concentration of substances because there is a saying that the vine has to suffer before they can make good wine. So those grapes are actually much tastier, are more aromatic compared with the normal fruit grapes. Grapes in Lavaux are all hand-picked. It is intensive work and a fast worker can pick up to 1,000 kilos per day. After harvesting, grapes are transported through a monorail, through a truck and sometimes even by a helicopter. This is a real Swiss luxury. The next step is crushing. While most winemakers use machines, a few still keep the traditional wood press. So we were riding around in all over Lavaux trying out different villages. We asked locals if they know someone who they could recommend one and then finally we found this winery. Actually, we've been here already like a year ago but we didn't remember its name. Now we do and the guy was very welcome and he just started to crush the grapes so we just arrived at the perfect moment. It's very loud so I have to be very close to the GoPro and explain what happened. So first of all, they crush all the grapes in this machine and then there is a pipe Grapes will be transported through the pipe here to this traditional presser. The pressing machine is done and this is what it looks like. So there are different layers of wood stacked up and then in the end they put this thing that presses everything down and then there will be much more juice coming out there. This is pure grape juice. Wow, it's so sweet. It's so delicious actually. Wow, it has a very special aroma in it. After crushing the grapes, the second is fermentation and for red wine, during fermentation, they have to blend the skin and seeds with the juice again by using a tool like that. So this is a new wine you can also taste. It's during the fermentation. So it's a part of sugar, a part of alcohol. Wow, it's still very sweet. It's not like red wine because there is a lot of sugar in it. Three more days and it will be done. So three more days the fermentation stopped. Yes. You hear a second fermentation. Yeah. You have the alcoholic fermentation which is the first fermentation. So this is the first fermentation. Yes, exactly, alcoholic fermentation and we can do a second fermentation. It's a fermentation with bacteria. Yeah. The first is with yeast. Yeah. And the second bacteria. And the bacteria will transform a part of the acidity of the wine, the new wine. And this transformation will shut down the acidity of the wine. This is a cellar for fermentation and also aging and on entering it, I already smell the wine. So now I'm climbing this tank and inside that's the grape juice fermentation process. There is a big opening. Oh, I can smell it from here. It's very strong and I can hear the sound. Apparently the yeast is very active. So you said like one liter of wine. Yes. There will be like 40, 45 liters of gas. Wow. Oh, it's good. It's really, it's really good. It's like sparkling grape juice with alcohol yet with a lot of aroma in it. I hope they can sell this in the supermarket so that I would buy one. It's a traditional way in the German part of Switzerland. Apparently this family has been living here for quite long. So on the wall you see their family pictures. That was Labo in 1926. And by then they're still using this to carry the grapes. Why do you still use this traditional way of pressing? You don't make a better work with the new generations of press. You just make faster. We have now we produce less grape. We have time to do the work. With traditional system you have the same juice at the end. It's much more beautiful. We have a lot of people who come to help us. The name of the winery is called Vittis Musicalis. Musicalis in English means music because apparently they also have some music instrument in a vineyard. There are some loud speakers. So at night they play some music so that the grapes can grow better. So this is a different variety? Yes. This one is Viognier. It comes from south of France. This one is Chardonnay. Ah Chardonnay. Everywhere you can grow Chardonnay. In Switzerland we don't have so much Chardonnay. But in the United States we have for a long long time. It was from 1946 so it was just after the second war. My grandfather drove through to Burgundy catch some some vines and come back and graft it and plant it. Today by using the old technique Alan's family produces about over 20,000 bottles a year. On his website Vittis Musicalis he offers opportunity to those who are interested in joining grape harvesting and shares knowledge of wine making. After a day's walk volunteers sit together in a friendly atmosphere and everyone is rewarded with a treasure box. Six bottles of wine as a gift. In Lavaux there are over 200 wineries many of which have been owned by the same family for generations and winery of this kind can be found in every single village in this region. This is another family who just finished Vendange. Merci beaucoup. So during this time of the year if you are walking in the village that's what you can often see. Wineries are crushing grapes or you will see big trucks transporting loads of grapes. What's quite interesting about Lavaux is that you have many medieval buildings and villages like now we are in Villette and you have these small aisles in between the houses. You have these really really old medieval houses. It's quite interesting to just walk through here. So when you pass through these villages you will find things like those which is a wine producer in Villette and they would showcase all the different wines they have. They have white wine, they have rosé, they have different red wines and indicated with the price list. So if this cave is open like if the cellar is open you can just go there and buy the bottles. So I think there's nothing better than finishing off this video on this spot in the middle of the vineyard with the beautiful view on Lake Geneva and some nice bottle of which just comes from these grapes. So cheers Bobo! We hope that you enjoyed watching this video and thanks for watching and cheers! Prost! Santé!