Work

Harvest started to kick in full blast. After my birthday weekend (great timing) we started to work two 10 hr shifts between the crew, 6 days a week. Mine is the morning shift, 5am-3pm Monday thru Saturday, and the afternoon shift is 2:30pm-12:30am. It is long and hard hours, but will be rewarding to see our hard work in an actual product.

One of the first days of the two shifts, we had a bit of down time and one of the wine makers let us stomp grapes with our feet. It was a really cool experience, except when anyone walked past us they liked to say, "...remember what happened 3 years ago...." Three years ago, one of the wine makers did the same thing but to a ferment and he ended up in the hospital with a yeast infection on his leg!! Ours was grapes hadn't started fermenting, and had been in the cold room (good for freezing your feet, it was really cold) for a week, so I think we are in the clear!