Bottling Day Vintage 2012

There’s something satisfying about putting up 18,577 bottles of freshly corked wine in your garage.

Vintage 2012, freshly bottled and corked

Bottling Day, Vintage 2012.  Small scale but super organized.

setting up the assembly line

Team in place to man the line. The joy of friends come to help.

top of the bottle rack
udders of the filling machine

Christian and Sonia, partners in a small bottling and labeling business, bring machinery and muscle.

Christian and John chat as they load
setting the full bottles in pallet-cages

We always thought that strong and competent Sonia looked young for her age. Found out yesterday was her birthday – no wonder she looks young, she just turned 23!

Sonia, young entrepreneur
Henri at the front loading post

Henri is in all places at once, from front loading to pallet-cages to the pump in the winery.

Mary gets it wrong, John rearranges the row

No one complains when I serve lunch – a festive moment and much needed break.  We toast with 2012, taste 2011, compare and discuss.  Very different sisters, definitely same family.

Then back to work and the gratifying sight of a garage getting fatter by the hour.

hoisting pallet-cages in the garage

Last pallet tucked away, we lock up the door on the resting 2012’s.

filling the last pallet of 2012

And turn our sights to the grapes ripening for harvest 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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