Scosul vinului, țeavă de scos vinul, Oltenia (1964)

Gheorghe FocGheorghe · 1964

Wine pulling, wine pulling pipe, Oltenia. The camera target captured an aspect of a research conducted in 1964 and was part of a research project conducted in several regions of the country. The picture illustrates an archaic method of drawing the wine from the barrel with the help of a so-called “robber”; he can be considered the ancestor of the hose. The burrow is the fruit of the tigva, a more special weft, usually used to remove, by suction, the wine from a barrel to the wreath (round or rectangular hole made at the clogged barrels, to be able to insert or remove the wine). It is all a cucurbits like the bostanul and the cucumber, but its lujer must be left to crumble (on a fence, on a tree, etc.). At maturity it is green, it has a spherical, 10-20 cm part that extends with a cylindrical tail, about 50 cm. Let dry reach the brown color. Cut the tip of the tail and remove the kernels and the rest of the contents, by shaking and pulling inside with a metal or wooden rod. On the opposite side of the tail a hole (5-8 mm) is made and the tail is extended by a cane pipe, sealed with hemp or other textile. The pipe was inserted through the flint of the barrel until it reached the spherical part, and with the mouth, the air was drawn from above, the liquid rising to the top. Not loosening the mouth, lift the robber out of the barrel, fingered the cane pipe then, over a pot or in a bottle, releasing the hole, let go of the liquid.