Pressed for WINE!

Making Wine... part two... just as easy as part one, but from the comfort of our own home!  Our wine has been bubbling (fermenting) away for the last two weeks; we have pushed down the cap every evening since we pitched the yeast.  We rented a wine press from a local winery shop, Heymann Winery, in Centralia and the following pictures show what happened next!
Pot by pot, we added our wine/grape mixture (must) to the press...

As we collected the juices, we (oh so gracefully, no marie didn't almost spill half the wine, what makes you think that???) poured the wine into a 6-gallon carboy.

We cranked down the press to extract as much liquid as possible.  However, we were told that we shouldn't press too hard... We weren't exactly sure where that limit was, but hopefully we did ok for first-timers.

The wine is a gorgeous deep purple color, with pink/maroon highlights.

We were sure  we wouldn't come anywhere close to filling the carboy, but we just barely fit all the wine!  We  both took a little taste test.

Our current gravity reading puts the wine at 12%ABV. Now... we wait for the sediment to settle out... we will rack the wine 3 times over the next year and add oak chips on the last rack.  We will keep you posted of course! 
Patience is a virtue when it comes to wine-making... but we have a few bottles of local wines to help pass the time... We just need some visitors to help. Hint. Hint. HINT!