It's been a busy few days at the crushpad. Over the weekend we crushed the sauvignon blanc and then spent Monday and Tuesday racking off lees and racking juice to other tanks. The exciting part of Tuesday was finding a bumble bee in the juice in the tank we just racked to. Leave it to the guys to come up with some fancy way to get it out of the tank. It was floating about 8 feet down from the top so they got a hose and prepared to siphon it off. Gary and Colin were the dynamic duo. Success! Colin managed to siphon it out, but then Gary put some reverse pressure and poor Colin sucked juice. Not a happy camper. But he was the hero of the day. Yesterday was a long, long day. I spent the day before running citric through the filters in preparation for bottling. We started off cleaning and heat sterilizing all the equipment. Then we set up our stations on the bottling line. I was in charge of placing the glass on the line, Dwight managed QA, Kay managed the pump regulation, Colin, Clay and Gary were in charge of labels, boxing and pallet stacking. Lots of physical activity. In the end, we bottled over 500 cases of the Chardonnay. That's 5 pallets of boxes stacked 4 high. Not a small feat for a small crew. K & C took us out to mexican last night. Margarita time.

Well, today's is a day off so I'm catching up o n posts and emails. Then, I'm heading to the Tri-Cities mall. A girl has gotta shop!