Learn more: In 1865, French winemaker Emmanuel Fallet settled on Samos, aiming to teach young Samiots aged 25-30 viticulture and wine making methodology. He provided the following instructions for the use of grape treading vats:
“Instruction 4. As soon as you harvest, tread on your grapes, then place on the lenos the must with the marc and add 1% alcohol to facilitate fermentation. The alcohol should be 32-35 degrees.
Instruction 5. Let them all boil together in the lenos for four days. Then decant this wine which you will distil carefully, and continue in this manner, until fermentation ceases. Then decant this wine which you will carefully distil, and do it in this way until there is no more fermentation.
I will provide other instructions that will be implemented four months later…”
Did you know that: The agreement between Fallet and the Samos state, which was represented by its Parliament (government), was for three years, from 1 April 1865 to 1 April 1868, and included an annual salary of 8000 francs, quite high for the time.