Week of May 2nd
To be fair, I shouldn't complain too much, all told we spread 24 hours of bottling over the course of 5 days, with other vineyard work mixed in. It is only the repetitive nature of it which can drain your spirits.
In effect, we were three people doing the work of four to five people, depending on how many stages we wanted to finish. I happily took on the work of two people, the internal cleaning and filling of the bottles, Leeko worked the corker and Leonard, our lead farm hand, the exterior cleaning. In the future we hope to make use of an automatic bottling line, but for the time being, phew, hard work :)
We decided to leave the capping of the bottles for when we labeled them. Each morning I moved as fast as I could to try and back the other fellows up…but I couldn’t catch Leeko :(
Also one can never rush Leonard, who prefers a job done right to one done quickly. That said, by the afternoon I started to slow down considerably.
Still by the end of the week all our varieties of red were tucked away on bottles, so a measurable accomplishment for the week at least (Oh, and this is one of FOUR pallets we finished with!).
Next week, we march to the fields!
Cheers,
Alan
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