Busy week
This week has been pretty busy. I returned from Chicago on Sunday, and drove up to Lompoc on Monday.
Wednesday we went to the winery and did the 2005 pre-bottling work, which entailed racking 35 barrels of Pinot Noir to a 2000 gallon steel tank, and racking 3 barrels of Pinot Noir to a 300 gallon steel tank. After the wine was racked to the tanks, we pumped it though a gentle filter and into another set of tanks. This, plus all of the sanitation and barrel cleaning, made Wednesday a very busy day for all four of us.
Friday we went back to the winery to monitor the bottling. Bottling lines are very expensive and for a small winery it doesn't make sense to own the line - so we outsource it. We also pulled a small quantity of wine before bottling to put into 1/2 and double size bottles by hand. It turned in to a very long day.
This morning (Saturday) I got up relatively early and went into the vineyard for a morning of hoeing. Hoeing is simply using a hoe to pull weeds out from under the vines. Very simple, and very strenuous.
In between all of this I have been working on other software stuff, reading, mountain biking, and fishing. It's fun, but I'm tired.
Wednesday we went to the winery and did the 2005 pre-bottling work, which entailed racking 35 barrels of Pinot Noir to a 2000 gallon steel tank, and racking 3 barrels of Pinot Noir to a 300 gallon steel tank. After the wine was racked to the tanks, we pumped it though a gentle filter and into another set of tanks. This, plus all of the sanitation and barrel cleaning, made Wednesday a very busy day for all four of us.
Friday we went back to the winery to monitor the bottling. Bottling lines are very expensive and for a small winery it doesn't make sense to own the line - so we outsource it. We also pulled a small quantity of wine before bottling to put into 1/2 and double size bottles by hand. It turned in to a very long day.
This morning (Saturday) I got up relatively early and went into the vineyard for a morning of hoeing. Hoeing is simply using a hoe to pull weeds out from under the vines. Very simple, and very strenuous.
In between all of this I have been working on other software stuff, reading, mountain biking, and fishing. It's fun, but I'm tired.
posted by Andrew Weber at 1:01 PM
2 Comments:
Question:
Are you banging any of the illegal's on this vineyard?
I would hope so. He probably has time in between his mountain biking and fishing.
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