Bottling Day!
At the winery @ 7 a.m., not expecting anything to be ready to go. However Harry and Frank are standing around waiting on us toget started. Frank’s a little grumbly about us being “late”, but he’ll get over it.
Our hired crew shows up as scheduled at 7:30. Frank H. and the labels show up at 7:33 or so. We haul corks and capsules to the truck wrestle hoses and hook up pumps and the first case rolls off the truck at 8:08 a.m. We’re finished at 12:15. At one point we bottled 140 cases in 20 minutes. Amazing. Harry and Frank are fast and efficient and everything works. Why do I sound surprised? Go read the January through April portions of the 2006 blog. Last year’s bottling was hell on earth and I actually had been dreading this day, but damn, it went well.
We bottled all the ‘05 wines except for Zinlady, which we’ll do next weekend - labels aren’t ready yet.
We scheduled next year’s bottling for March 1, 2008.
Our thanks to Harry and Frank and Mobile Wine Line!