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Cider women
Jakoba Errekondo 2018ko irailaren 11

It's time to pick up the fruits and get them on the way to the lagar. Pear (Pyrus communis), apple (Malus x domestica), grape (Vitis vinifera)... It seems a short and quick road, but you have to work a lot of rodeos and their variants until the fruit becomes must and must become an alcoholic beverage.

In my opinion, the main reasons for making alcoholic beverages with fruits and seeds are two. On the one hand, it is a way to preserve crops: alcohol as a preservative, is a way to keep these fruits without wasting them after much fruit. On the other hand, when water pollutes diseases and pests, the beverage disinfected with alcohol and fermentation has a great value for health.

Wild or cultivated, the beverages with natural fruits at our disposal are nutritional and health complementary: a healthy diet. And who cares in our cultures about healthy family and clan feeding? What a woman!

All those who appear in the hieroglyphs, icons and images of yesteryear making these beverages are women. The creation and care of these beverages depended on him, and they were often part of the cult of the goddesses that linked them to nature. It's natural, the fruit is the female, the fecundity ...

The two forces have dismissed the woman from these fermentations, which have not resulted in injuries. The first, the churches of supposed religions, which never correspond to the joy and health of the possession and enjoyment of these drinks, related them to the charms. And the second, the drinks, which were for the house, became a big business, that is, the work of the house, a source of income that the class men could not support...

Sending women into a healthy diet is OK, OK. But to have a commandment in the pleasures, in the pleasures and in the diners, that is not! Of course men have to bite there with the stick of teeth and bites!

It is not difficult in the world of cider and wine to develop in a similar way. Historians will bring it to light. In 1609, the Inquisitor Pierre Errostegi of Lancre described the Basque Country as follows: “It’s the town of apples; women only eat apple, only drink cider and are always ready to bite the apple of temptation.” Not supported by sterile Christian men. It is no wonder that we are witnessing a turn of the nut in which more and more shops and wineries of wine are in the hands of women. For the sake of cider and cider! Wine drinkers tell us...