Needing a break from wine, our first week in New Zealand was packed full of hiking, beer drinking, and driving through the picturesque and changing landscapes of the south island. Our first wine stop was to visit a friend working a harvest in the Waipara Valley just north of Christchurch. We were greeted […]
Since wireless has been sparse, and its hard to impossible to find an Internet café that lets you use USB ports, my posts are going to be limited. So the new plan is to write as I go, and post everything I have whenever I can!
The road trip from Adelaide to Melbourne was successful, […]
Quick Facts:
From Adelaide, South Australia to Melbourne, Victoria.
The People: One American, one Italian, and one Frenchman – All Winos.
The Cars: 1985 Nissan Pulsar and a 1980 Holden Cruiser Van.
The Arsenal: 60 bottles of wine from Margarette River, Langhorne Creek and Coonawarra.
Just over 24 hours into the road trip to Melbourne, and nestled into tonight’s hotsel […]
It started at six weeks, soon dwindled to ten days remaining, and now it’s down to hours. Twenty more hours, two more days of work, and much awaited freedom will be upon me. One of the most difficult harvests in the past few years in South Australia is nearly over, and after a […]
This blog was inspired by some of the strangest weather I have ever seen in my life. In fact, as I write this the power at the winery has gone down, as well as the power in half of Adelaide (thank God for laptop batteries!). This morning it was raining, not-raining, hot, cold, […]
You haven’t fully appreciated wine until its 11:47 PM on Good Friday and you’re muttering four letter words you shouldn’t be saying on a holy day whilst picking stems out of a grape crusher with the Southern Cross shining above. That’s right folks, its harvest time – Australian style.
For those who have never considered […]
In the spirit of a running diary, I give you 24 hours as a crush intern. This is a chronicle of my longest day so far, but others have been very close:
12:00 AM: Order another Racer 5 IPA at Anna’s Cantina, speak some Spanglish with Chilean intern.
12:07 AM: Sports center comes on Bar TV, […]
So I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks, chalk it up to the insanity of harvest. A rush to bring in all of our best fruit before yesterday’s rain lead to 13-14 hour days, and not much to do but work and […]
Disclaimer: This is the first blog I wrote notes for at work, in-between troubleshooting a half-working grape crusher and being splashed with zinfandel juice…
So yesterday I was doing some barrel work, and while climbing on barrels all I could think about was how I hadn’t posted anything for this week yet, and worse off, […]
A bout of unseasonably cool weather in Napa has left this New Englander feeling at home, but has also pushed off further harvesting of grapes. Cool weather slows the grape ripening process down, pushing off the harvest date for each lot. As a result, I scored a few days off to catch a […]
