The countdown begins...

Next Wednesday, less than one week from today, we will be bottling our red.  Everything is pretty much ready. We have everything except for the bottles and they will arrive Monday.  I spoke with the man on the phone and he had already been informed by the salesperson that I was very nervous about the bottles arriving. Hopefully, everything will go as planned this time.

Last weekend we had Matt's brother, Brian, his wife, Jenn, and their two girls here, so we took advantage of the extra hands to move the boxes and dividers from the garage into the upper part of the winery so that we could finish cleaning out the garage. Sure is nice to have help!  Makes people think twice about coming to visit us though as there's always a project to be done. Having visitors seems to motivate us to get those projects done!  Hmm, wonder why!?  We filled up our friend Peter's pick-up truck twice with junk to go to the dump.  You see, we inherited a lot of stuff when we bought this house. Some of it is wonderful bits of the history of our house, some of it is just plain junk.  I really hate to throw things away, especially old things.  I drew the line though, at a jar of mushrooms that had been preserved back in 1956, even though it was a very nice, old canning jar. There was no way I was going to open it!

Anyway, once again, we were saved by members of our family.  It's really amazing, no matter how far they have to come, it's like magic they just appear and help out!  We really are so very lucky!

Jenn and I racked the wine one last time before bottling in order to reduce the amount of CO2.  This occurs naturally after fermentation, and you really don't want to have too much when you bottle, otherwise your wine will have a slight sparkle to it.  Now, it's just waiting until next Wednesday when it will be bottled!  I can't wait.  In the meantime, I pulled a sample this afternoon to taste it.  Mmmm, it's pretty darn good. I think you'll like it! 

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[Kelli Stanley]

We can't wait to taste it!!!!