About three years ago Síle planted a Chassalas grape in our garden and encouraged it to grow up to the terrace and provide us with permanant summer sunshade.
So far so good, it reached the top of the terrace last summer and has been spreading itself dutifully this year.

This summer it started to produce grapes, these we mainly culled but couldn’t resist letting some ripen. These I picked last week, a fairly sorry looking bunch I admit and we were at a loss as to what to do with them.
Eventually they had a last minute escape from the bin when we decided to attempt squeezing them, mainly by bashing with a pestle in a stainless steel bowl, and then straining off the results. The resulting juice wasn’t the most interesting so I enlivened it with a couple of shots of an Elderflower liqueur I made in May and made jelly from it.