A whole lot of bottles...

Today, we enjoyed the result of our newly poured cement floor.  Early this morning the bottles were delivered for the imminent bottling of our 2006 vintage.  Well, I say imminent, but it's not so imminent, we were supposed to bottle next Tuesday and Wednesday, but due to a scheduling hiccup, we've put it off another week, or maybe two.  Last year that would have been a huge problem, because we had no place to store the bottles, but this year, this year we have a brand new floor in the "cave"  !!!  It was simply amazing how easily we just rolled all 12 pallets of bottles into the garage and shut the door, I'm still trying to get over it.  Last year I would have had to call the bottle supplier and delay the delivery which is never a good thing, especially in the summer months when a lot of people go on vacation, and especially this year since there is a shortage of bottles and many people are having to delay their bottling because of it.  This would pose a big problem for us since we have to bottle before harvest, we don't have enough tank space to hold 2 vintages at a time.  So, you see, this year is going much more smoothly (knock on wood!), now we just have to get a date for bottling.  Our bottler assures me that we'll find 2 days to do it, I don't think I'll sleep well until we've got another date booked, but we're trying to pick the right days.  The right days in the biodynamic calendar, that is.  We've asked several people what are the best days to bottle according to the lunar calendar, and we've gotten several different responses.  It seems like each time we find two days that we think might meet the criteria, they fall on a weekend!! Here, nobody works on the weekend, especially in July and August.  So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that we find a day or two that will work for everyone!

(That's quite a floor - isn't it??)

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[Beatrice]

Salutations d'un confrère de Chateauneuf du Pape. Très bon blog !