During the following years, a grape receiving center (stafylodochos) was set up in every village. There the donkey men unloaded the grapes on the balance and the weigher, raising and lowering the "weights" with quick movements, weighed them and called out the name and the weight so that the clerk could hear it. Afterwards, they were emptied carefully to avoid scattering the ripe grapes.

A worker would pick up grapes with a "fork" and put them in the "mastello", (wooden pail) to "press" them. With quick movements he squashed the grapes, squeezed them well and put the must in a "tsoukos", (a vessel with a sieve in the middle like a strainer), stirred it and filled the "grader".

The "grading" man would measure the grade and call it out. If there was disagreement about it they graded it again, up to three times, and they calculated the average. All these data were recorded by the clerk who issued the receipt note.

Learn more: Sometime between 1970-1980 many rural roads were opened, the vine growers bought farm trucks, and transport by donkeys was reduced. Today, the producer himself carries his grapes to the winery by his car.

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