Wednesday, September 24, 2008






So I come to you this thursday morning with some good news and some bad news. Well, I mean I guess its not bad news, but lets just say were hurting and tired this morning. We worked from 8am until 10:30pm last night. We did break for lunch, I'll admit, but this is a schedule to which Liz and are I NOT accustomed. Because it was a full day of sun, aka no Piogga, we crushed and pressed as many grapes as we could. We are estimating almost 100 bins.






The good news is we learned how to do a lot of new things. We learned how to measure the Babo of the wine. We got to help transfer wines from small tanks to large ones. We helped prepare the Levity treatment for the wines. I got to climb inside the pitch black press to blindly hose out any leftover skins and seeds. Most importantly, I got to use the power hose gun. After working for thirteen hours, it's a really great way to get out any lingering exhaustion and frustration.






Everyone except for Mimo is comfortable in asking us to help them with something or another. We have been making a concerted effort to show them that we're not afriad to get dirty, and that underneath our gap tees and seven jeans, we've got some serious muscle going on. Although the juvenile flirtation methods that they employ, such as throwing grapes at us and pretending it was not them ALL DAY LONG have almost crossed the line from annoyance to sheer anger, we figure thats better than them completely ignoring us. Wow. I think that was a really bad run on but I'm so braindead right now, I just can't find a way to break that one down. Sorry.






Here's a really interesting blog with information about Babo, as well as the difference between Babo and Brix.






Also there are pictures! Now who doesn't like pictures??






We are REALLY hoping we get some time off tonight - seeing as were out of food, shampoo, conditioner, soap, contact solution, diet coke, WINE and BEER - its dire straits, my friends.






I've got so many funny things to blog about, so check back soon!

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