Welcome New Tanks!

I considered writing an outline of who I am, my fellow staff and the winery to start this blog but upon some limited consideration (As I sit with my girlfriend Sara on this cloudy Sunday watching BBC's Pride & Prejudice) I have changed my mind. I think it would be more natural to have persons and places wander by themselves into my posts. So, shall we?

Week of April 25^th

I was on a brief holiday in Cape Breton with Sara received an email from Leeko, the estate winemaker and vineyard manager, saying that our new stainless tanks had arrived. The three tanks, each with a volume of 3000l, increased our tank capacity to 18000l.

We organized a group of family and friends to come by to help tip the tanks to a upright positions, which was achieved with some basic physics (We attached a chain to one joint on their tops, causing a bit a swinging once raised by the tractor), and some minor stubbing of my fingers (Thank you Dad…).

Our first orders of business were to high pressure wash and clean them thoroughly. We then transferred our new Belleisle Red from our 1000l tanks and combined it into one of our new tanks in preparation for bottling the following week. A week which would be quite tiring indeed, which I am clearly not anticipating in this picture.

Since this blog is meant to outline the processes we are going through at the winery and nothing else, I will leave this post here, only to add my thanks to Leeko for these and I am sure many future pictures.

Cheers,

Alan