And although I have come here in search of the red plenty of the soil and its produce, I realise that the journey has led me also to the green that Juan talked about: the herbs inside this bottle have given the liquid the exact mossy-yellow colour of the pine forests and vineyards that surround us.
Roza Otunbayea, leader of the Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) movement, who was denied registration as a candidate, insists that yellow is the colour: it means ready for change, she says, as in a traffic light.