Drylands

seconds before I burned my face with Caustic Soda

taking apart the crusher took serious team work 

gangster living

lunch break

mid overflow

me, hating life

you are looking at over 50 tons of grapes on the ground. that is worth more than $100,000. woops doesn't really cover that one

my personal overflow :(

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can't complain about the view

kyle hard at work

pumps galore

drunkards (seriously enjoying the perks of working at a winery)

eager to go home after 12 hours

Here are some pics c/o Francisco and Vaclav. They snapped some great shots throughout the weeks and here are a few of my favorites. Cisco has a knack for capturing big mistakes and hilarious moments.

In winery speak- overflowing a tank is pretty bad. Our team was far from stellar this vintage and chanting "overflow" has become a little inside joke (not to the winemakers of course).

Here are some more winery tidbits:

• everyone marvels at Kyle and I's consumption of peanut butter.
• the truck drivers and wine makers made fun of me for a week for putting peanut butter on an apple... they clearly don't understand
• Kasey spent one afternoon making scones for all of us with jam and whipped cream (a classic kiwi treat)- beyond delicious. 
• I will not even attempt to describe how Kiwis pronounce scone but it is not even close to correct
• after a day off, people often brought in some delicous treat for morning smoko (although kyle and I were lame and never brought in anything- regret)
• Vaclav, Kyle's fellow press man, is very talented in the kitchen and makes a very dangerous chocolate cake
• women normally make the yeast for fermentation because they are gentler with the babies and they become much happier and productive yeast
• yeast like to be brought to life by being massaged with your hands (and sweet talked if you want to get fancy with it)- that being said, if you get any in open cuts on your hands you get a yeast infection and cannot eat sugar (my personal hell!)
• our hands have tons of open cuts and wounds because they are so dry from all of the cleaning that they have cracked open. luckily no yeast infections here
• every morning we all take the newspaper quiz. Usually it was just Kiwi trivia but the winemakers definitely had a knack for useless facts.